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Premier's Advisor Live is a teleconference series on important topics of reducing cost, improving quality & safety, and reducing risk. There is no charge for the calls. We encourage you to gather a group and discuss the issues afterwards.

Advisor Live

Each individual should register separately so we can e-mail the link to supporting materials and the program evaluation.


Upcoming Advisor Live programs

Date/topic

Speakers

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May 20, 2008
2-3 ET

VTE Prevention: from quality to safety
Alpesh Amin, M.D., M.B.A. Executive Director, Hospitalist Program Medical Director, Anticoagulation Services, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs & Quality Department of Medicine University of California, Irvine

George Whitelaw, President of Strategic Marketing Technologies (SMT)

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Advisor Live archive
Click on the archived topics below for program details including speaker information, reference materials and audio files.

Date Topic
3/5/08 Lessons Learned from HQID Top Performer - St. Vincent Health Center, Erie, PA
2/5/08 How to use productivity analysis, education and process redesign to create profitability in an outpatient setting
1/23/08 Lessons Learned from Quality Demo (HQID) Top Performer – Charleston Area Medical Center
10/19/07
Session III
9/26/07 Establishing Defensible and Profitable Pricing
8/16/07
Session II
6/19/07 Healthcare Associated Infections: What everyone needs to know
5/22/07
Session I
4/18/07 Preventing Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
2/21/07 Introducing the Premier Performance Suite – Product Launch
1/31/07 Lessons from Top Performers in Year 2 of the Premier/CMS HQID P4P Project
12/20/06 Using Physician Order Sets to Improve Performance
11/29/06 Automating Infection Control Surveillance using data mining technology
10/25/06 Using Quality Measures for Regulatory Reporting
9/21/06 "Tired of pharmacist turnover?"  Premier members share innovative strategies to recruit and retain pharmacists
9/13/06 The Burden of Venous Thromboembolism: Prevention and Quality of Care in the Inpatient Setting
8/30/06 Improving Outcomes in the OB Suite
7/19/06 Performance Pays: Proving High Quality Care Costs Less and Saves Lives
6/7/06 Leveraging Technology to Improve Heart Failure Performance
5/10/06 Managing Labor Productivity: One System, One Tool, Five Variations
4/12/06 Impact of Adverse Events: Results from Tufts-New England Medical Center study using Electronic Incident Reporting
3/15/06 Heart Failure Discharges: Lessons from Pay for Performance
3/14/06 To D or not to D: The Digital Mammography Decision
2/15/06 Integrity of Clinical Documentation
2/14/06 Better Performers in Cardiovascular Care
2/09/06 Pneumococcal and Flu Vaccinations: Strategies for Improvement
1/18/06 Improving Emergency Department Throughput: Benchmarks and Strategies
1/10/06 Achieving Success with Supplier Diversity
12/06/05 Growing with Premier: how to build a successful affiliate program
11/30/05 Pay-for-Performance: CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Year 1 Results
10/26/05 Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) - A National Quality Partnership
9/28/05 Safety and Quality Continuum - Using an Electronic Incident Record to Aggregate Disparate Data
8/16/05 Using technology assessment to drive bottom-line performance
8/10/05 Reduce Length of Stay, Improve Quality with Data and Best Practices
7/12/05 Endovascular Interventions: Controlling costs in an increasingly challenging area
6/23/05 Leadership's Role in Managing Rising Drug Expense
6/15/05 SIP to SCIP: Preparing for additions to Surgical Infection Measures (SIP) under the 8th Scope of Work
5/12/05 Keeping our environment healthy: green product practices
5/04/05 Achieving Clinical and Operational Excellence in the Emergency Department
4/12/05 Defining and Achieving Top Supply Chain Performance
4/06/05 IHI's 100,000 Lives Campaign
3/09/05 Improving Patient Safety With Automated Incident/Error Reporting and Root Cause Analysis
3/08/05 Innovation and Automation in Supply Chain Management
2/02/05 Hardwiring Labor Management for Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
1/5/05 Engaging Physicians in Care Standardization, Safety Initiatives, and CPOE
12/8/04 Supply Chain Performance Indicators: Identifying opportunity for improvement
11/3/04 Performance Dashboards: Balancing Outcomes, Satisfaction, and Cost
9/29/04 Public reporting and quality measurement: Digesting healthcare's alphabet soup

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