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October 29, 2019
Premier Inc. Acquires Medpricer to Optimize Savings in Purchased Services
Medpricer enables hospitals and other organizations to analyze, benchmark and source purchased services contracts independent of any existing GPO affiliation.
October 29, 2019
What We’re Watching: October 29, 2019
We hear that major legislation may be introduced this week to address drug shortages.
October 29, 2019
Statement on the FDA Drug Shortage Task Force Report
Premier Statement on the FDA Drug Shortage Task Force report.
October 21, 2019
Premier Inc. Launches stockd.™, an E-Commerce Marketplace for Healthcare and Business Supplies
Stockd.™ unites national and entrepreneurial sellers, bringing reliable, innovative manufacturers into the alternate-site supply chain on a single online purchasing platform.
October 14, 2019
Premier Cautions DEA on Proposal to Reduce CII Quotas in 2020
Premier submitted comments cautioning the DEA to carefully consider how a reduction in manufacturing quotas for certain opioids could rekindle recent drug shortages.
October 08, 2019
Premier’s ProvideGx™ Program Partners with Amphastar to Provide Seven Shortage Drugs, Most in Emergency, Pre-Filled Syringes
Through its ProvideGx™ program, Premier has partnered with Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to supply to healthcare providers phytonadione injection and emergency, pre-filled syringes.
October 08, 2019
Partnership Between Premier’s ProvideGx™ Program and Exela Pharma Sciences, LLC, Successfully Resolves National Shortage of Cysteine Hydrochloride
Premier's ProvideGx™ program and its partnership with Exela Pharma Sciences has successfully resolved the multi-year, national shortage of cysteine hydrochloride injection.
September 18, 2019
Premier Statement on FDA Action to Address the Use of Citizen Petitions to Delay Market Competition of Generics and Biosimilars
Members of Premier applaud the FDA for finalizing guidance on the use of citizen petitions to delay the market entry of generic medications and biosimilars.
September 16, 2019
Seven Ways E-Commerce is Changing Healthcare Purchasing
To better understand the effect of e-Commerce on purchasing for non-acute healthcare providers, Premier® conducted a series of member surveys over the past year.
September 11, 2019
Premier Inc. Projects 4.2 Percent Price Inflation for Pharmaceuticals
Prices projected to increase over previous estimates, driven by newly released products such as cellular and gene therapies.
September 09, 2019
Is US Healthcare Prepared to Weather Hurricanes and Other Natural Disasters?
mHealth Times | Premier's Chaun Powell discusses how we help our members with disaster preparedness.
August 20, 2019
What We’re Watching: August 20, 2019
Ride sharing services are becoming a popular innovation in helping to improve population health.
August 09, 2019
Texas Health Resources, Premier Target Supply Chain Management
HealthData Management | Texas Health Resources is working with Premier to launch a regional supply chain organization to improve total cost management for providers across North Texas.
August 09, 2019
Presidential Candidates Aren’t Talking About Drug Shortages. They Should Be
STAT | A similar company launched in January 2019: ProvideGx, founded by Premier, a health care improvement company with 4,000 allied hospitals.Full story
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 31, 2019
Premier Inc. and Texas Health Resources Partner to Scale Innovation in Healthcare Cost Management
The two organizations formed a regional supply chain organization to further scale advancements in total cost management for healthcare providers across North Texas.
July 23, 2019
Premier’s ProvideGx™ Program to Supply Sodium Bicarbonate Injection to Providers
Premier has partnered with Exela Pharma Sciences to supply sodium bicarbonate injection, a drug that has been in shortage for nearly two years.
July 23, 2019
What We’re Watching: July 23, 2019
The number of Medicare ACOs taking risk has increased to 29 percent.
July 23, 2019
Premier’s ProvideGx Program to Supply Sodium Bicarbonate Injection to Providers
Healthcare Purchasing News | ProvideGx announces it will supply sodium bicarbonate injections to healthcare providers.
July 18, 2019
A Look Back at Breakthroughs 2019
Population Health
| Quality Improvement
| Supply Chain
| Data & Analytics
| Finance & Operations
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Blog
| Breakthroughs
It's been one month since more than 4,200 healthcare industry representatives from hospitals, health systems, suppliers, life sciences companies and other healthcare organizations attended Breakthroughs.
July 16, 2019
What We’re Watching: July 16, 2019
Last week, Premier announced a collaborative with 10 hospitals to lower preventable maternal and neonatal harm and deaths.
