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August 01, 2019
How Our Health Systems Are Working to Prevent Hospital Drug Shortages
STAT | Premier members discuss how their health systems are working to prevent hospital drug shortages.
July 15, 2019
Boston Children’s Hospital Partners with Premier to Improve Supply Chain
FierceHealthcare | Boston Children’s Hospital is working with Premier to streamline management of its supply chain.
June 11, 2019
Three Strategies for Clinically Integrated Networks to Achieve Financial Success
Becker's Hospital Review | Having effective physician-led governance, holistic expense and revenue management, and aligned contracting strategies are critical keys to CIN success.
June 03, 2019
How Hartford Healthcare Reduced Harm by 70 Percent
HealthLeaders Media | This six-hospital system in Connecticut set a goal to lower the incidence of patient harm.
May 30, 2019
What Value-Based Payment Means for Academic Medical Centers
NEJM Catalyst | Academic centers must become as dedicated to advancing operational and clinical efficiency as they have been to advancing the science of medicine.
May 30, 2019
Clinical Decision Support: A Bright Future for Healthcare Delivery
Creating a New Healthcare Podcast | Premier's Dr. Scott Weingarten discusses the impact sophisticated clinical decision support technology can have on organizational quality and cost.
May 23, 2019
Marrying Quality and Supply Chain to Drive Clinical Integration
AHRMM | In the transition to value-based care, the power of supply chain to drive both cost savings and better outcomes should not be overlooked.
May 15, 2019
Premier’s ProvideGx Enlists Fresenius Kabi to Tackle Drug Shortages
Modern Healthcare | Premier is working with drugmaker Fresenius Kabi to mitigate drug shortages of five injectables.
May 15, 2019
Two New Ventures Strike Deals with Drug Makers to Combat Generic Shortages
STAT | ProvideGx struck a deal for Fresenius Kabi to make several drugs, including injectable thiamine, lidocaine, and morphine sulfate.
May 02, 2019
Pfizer And Others Join Working Group To Use Blockchain Protocol For Supply Chain Management
Forbes | Chronicled, a technology firm that builds blockchain-powered ecosystems and supply chain solutions, announced that Premier joined the MediLedger Project Contracting and Chargebacks working group.
May 02, 2019
HDM Names 2019 Class of Most Powerful Women in HIT
Health Data Management | Health Data Management named 50 women, including Premier's COO of ITS Angela Lanning, to this year’s list of the Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT.
May 01, 2019
Basic Social Needs Are Driving Future Care Models
Modern Healthcare | Comprehensive, personalized care focused on long-term patient needs is key to success.
April 25, 2019
Does Your Organization Have the Right Strategic Plan?
The Governance Institute | How healthcare boards can adopt an accelerated short-term, market-driven strategic planning process while simultaneously considering potential long-range future scenarios.
April 10, 2019
The Next Frontier: Clinically Driven, Employer-Customized Care
The Healthcare Blog | Together, employers and health systems are bypassing traditional third-party payers to pursue a new type of healthcare financing and delivery model.
April 02, 2019
Cracking the Code on Physician Practice Performance
HFMA Trendsetter | Smedley, who leads physician enterprise performance improvement work at Premier, is tackling this issue head-on. His team works with health systems to challenge how...
March 29, 2019
Barriers to Success in Population Health Management, Value-based Care
Essential Insights Blog | Some of the same factors that make academic health systems famous are now barriers that put them at a distinct disadvantage.
March 21, 2019
Sepsis Treatment Costs Shoot Up $1.5 Billion for Hospitals Over Three Years
Modern Healthcare | Although the number of patients who developed sepsis during their hospital stay declined by 15% from 2015 to 2018, patients were more likely to get septic shock.
March 19, 2019
Premier CEO: Have to Get Control Over the Pricing of Drugs
Fox Business Mornings with Maria | Premier CEO Susan DeVore talks with Maria Bartiromo about drug prices, innovation in healthcare and the resignation of FDA Chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb.
February 12, 2019
FINN FACT #2 – HIMSS 2019 HEALTH
Finn Partners Blog | John Nosta chatted with Premier's Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH on day 1 of HIMSS19 about better quality of care and patient outcomes, at a lower cost.
February 11, 2019
Advice for HIMSS: Put Patients and Their Caregivers at the Center of Your Universe
STAT | When the lens through which Leigh Anderson viewed his role in the healthcare technology community changed from profession to purpose.
February 09, 2019
One MD Executive Peers Forward Towards HIMSS19: A Rapid Acceleration of Tools Capability?
Healthcare Innovation | Scott Weingarten, M.D., of Premier Inc. and Cedars-Sinai Health, sees health information technology on the verge of major breakthroughs in usability and capabilities, as...
