QualityConnect™
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
On December 3, Premier conducted the third in a series of quality focused educational webcasts, entitled
"The Changing Landscape of Readmissions."
Access the archived webcast now.
TOOLS
- ClinicalAdvisor™
- Quality Manager
- QualityAdvisor™
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- Quality Measures Reporter
- Performance Improvement Portal
- Onsite management engineering
RESOURCES
Sustaining improvement across your organization requires more than short-term, temporary reactions. High-performing cultures require a framework of the correct tools and proven processes.
Premier's QualityConnect program is a comprehensive, integrated product and service offering aimed at addressing the pressing quality of care challenges facing healthcare organizations today.
QualityConnect will guide you as you face:
- Transparency and public reporting concerns
- Regulatory mandates
- Reimbursement erosion
- Physician engagement pressures
- Patient Safety, Harm Avoidance and HACs
Together the quality of care can be improved
Premier's experience shows that shared objectives, combined with commitment and transparency in best practices, lead to the most improvement for hospitals. Collaboration, a critical element of the QualityConnect program, is key to your success. Discovering the best practices of top performers and incorporating them into your organization will accelerate your results.
Leveraging Premier's vast clinical process expertise and the wealth of knowledge stemming from our nationwide, groundbreaking QUEST and HQID performance improvement initiatives, QualityConnect will allow its members to recognize significant return-on-investment (ROI), just as Premier has been delivering to our customers for nearly 40 years.
QualityConnect goals
The specific goals of QualityConnect are to help healthcare organizations improve the quality of patient care and to increase operational and financial performance. More than just a software tool, QualityConnect integrates three core components to reach its goals – data analytics and software, performance improvement support services and collaborative knowledge sharing. An emphasis will be placed on several key quality-related indicators:
- 15 percent+ reduction in the overall cost of care through utilization management in high cost areas (ICU, blood)
- 20 percent protection of reimbursement erosion from hospital acquired conditions
- 15 percent+ reduction in length of stay in costly service lines (craniotomy, tracheotomy)
- 20 percent+ reduction in mortality
- 15 percent+ reduction in readmissions rates
- 7 percent improvement in composite quality scores