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Premier healthcare alliance launches
QUEST new technology program to promote healthcare innovation; (4/16/08)
The Premier healthcare alliance today launched the QUEST Supplier Innovation
ProgramTM, focused on testing effectiveness of new healthcare technologies
through the QUEST: High Performing Hospitals initiative. The purpose of this
first-of-its kind program is to accelerate access to technologies proven to
be safe and effective.
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Never pay never again; 3/10/08
This article looks at what hospitals are doing, including participating
in Premier's QUEST initiative, to prepare for CMS' IPPS ruling in October of
2008. Representatives from Texas health Resources, Summa Health System,
Kettering Medical Center and Premier are quoted.
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Modern Healthcare
Transforming healthcare; Healthcare Exec;
1/08 issue:
This article discusses Premier’s efforts to transform the healthcare
system and features an extensive interview with Premier COO Susan DeVore.
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Press Release: Leading healthcare organizations to serve as advisors for comprehensive program to improve hospital quality, reduce costs (12/19/07)
Premier launches expanded hospital quality initiative; Physician's
News Digest; 11/07 issue:
This article features a Q&A session with Premier Vice President and Medical
Director Richard Bankowitz, MD, regarding the Premier QUEST initiative.
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Premier launches comprehensive quality improvement project; Drug
Topics; 10/22/07:
A new project called QUEST by the healthcare alliance Premier Inc. is an
aggressive attempt to develop performance measures that improve quality and
lower costs.
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QUEST: Toward a new healthcare paradigm; HealthLeaders Media; 9/27/07:
This bylined article from Premier President and CEO Rick Norling
discusses the keys to transforming the U.S. healthcare system to improve
quality, highlighting the Premier QUEST project.
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Alegent Health is on the QUEST to improve health care; Alegent
Health Web site ; 9/12/07:
Alegent Health in Omaha, NE, is taking its vision of delivering world-class
health care to new heights through the Premier "QUEST: High Performing
Hospitals" program.
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Alegent Health is on the QUEST to improve
health care; Alegent Health Web site; 9/12/07:
Alegent Health in Omaha, NE, is taking its vision of delivering
world-class health care to new heights through the Premier "QUEST: High
Performing Hospitals" program.
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A QUEST to lower health care costs; The
Oklahoman; 9/11/07:
St. Anthony Hospital is on a quest to lower health care costs to patients.
Make that QUEST. The Oklahoma City hospital is part of a group of 100
hospitals nationwide participating in a three-year program called "QUEST:
High Performing Hospitals" that is designed to improve the quality and
safety of patient care while safely reducing health care costs. St. Anthony
is the only Oklahoma hospital participating in the QUEST program. St.
Anthony will report data to the Premier healthcare alliance on a set of
defined quality, efficiency, safety and patient satisfaction measures.
Participating hospitals will share best practices and results from top
performers to deliver the highest quality patient care at the lowest costs.
Premier announces pay-for-performance initiative; Modern Healthcare;
7/26/07:
A new pay-for-performance project aims to improve patient safety and quality
at approximately 100 hospitals nationwide, Premier announced. QUEST: High
Performing Hospitals – which focuses on quality, efficiency, safety, with
transparency – is a three-year program in which participating facilities
will develop and share best practices in five areas: mortality ratio, harm
avoidance, appropriate care, efficiency and patient satisfaction. The
project, which is not part of a CMS demonstration project, builds on
Premier’s Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration and the Institute for
Healthcare Improvement’s 100,000 Lives and 5 Million Lives campaigns.
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Press Release: Premier healthcare alliance launches comprehensive project to improve hospital quality, reduce costs (7/26/07)