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Data is enabling provider innovation and spurring creative solutions that advance health equity.
With the right data, ACOs can optimize their network composition, improve patient outcomes and drive financial savings.
How Community Health Network drove major results by implementing actionable Hierarchical Condition Category alerts in its EHR.
Community Enhancement Collaboration, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to eradicating food insecurity, received the Premier Cares Award.
Premier analysis demonstrates how primary care providers can uncover additional patient access without adding new providers.
Premier's Angela Lanning and Gerry Meklaus outline four of the biggest ways AI-enabled tech will drive healthcare forward long after the pandemic's end.
CJR hospitals that have worked with Premier’s Bundled Payment Collaborative have experienced significant success by following four key strategies.
Medical groups’ utilization of the Annual Wellness Visit is typically low, despite the high revenue opportunity. Here's how to close the gap.
The Hill explores how Black women are disproportionately affected by severe maternal morbidity through the lens of Premier's latest data.
Risk-bearing models enable providers to deliver innovative care, but the risk of failure is real. Check out four essential capabilities for participants to advance.
Premier's Ricky Garcia explains how the pandemic single-handedly reignited the healthcare industry’s interest in telehealth.
Premier found that U.S. hospitals showed a 17 percent decrease in delivery-related maternal deaths, while severe maternal morbidity has increased significantly.
Andy Edeburn discusses how COVID has prompted a rethinking of long-term care models.
Henry Mayo Newhall hospital needed to overcome a fragmented culture among physicians in its shift to value-based care. So its leaders turned to Premier.
Four ways health systems can align their Community Health Needs Assessment feedback with their value-based transformations.
Premier's experts weigh in on new care delivery expectations, and how governing boards can fulfill their fiduciary duties, post-pandemic.
A TPA that is attuned to a health system’s ecosystem can create a flexible approach that empowers unprecedented collaboration and optimized results.
Roger Weems weighs in on how healthcare usage has changed amidst the pandemic.
DeVore participated in a Q&A with The Journal of Healthcare Contracting, reflecting on her successful tenure at Premier as well as how the company is...
More providers today are prioritizing access to quality benchmarking analytics. And while benchmarking is necessary, it’s not sufficient on its own.
Premier’s approach helped ULP align strategy, clinical efficiency and growth into a robust program that set them apart in healthcare delivery for their region.
Premier's Gerry Meklaus weighs in on the impact digital access may have to those in areas with less connectivity.
How has COVID-19 and the uptake of virtual care affected patient access and retention in ambulatory care? We turned to the data.
Learn five strategies to increase patient access and decrease lag times based on an analysis of patient appointments in 2019 and 2020.
CMS’ use of completion factors during COVID-19 could create complications.
Premier members that participate in the portfolio model with five or more clinical episodes earn 69 percent more savings per episode. Here's how.
Premier CEO, Susan DeVore discusses impacts COVID-19 has had on the healthcare industry and its supply chain.
Traditional budgetary approaches and evaluations based on revenue don't capture the true contribution of care management, write Premier's Donna Cella and Beth Anctil.
Michael J. Alkire, president of Premier, will succeed DeVore and serve as president, CEO and a member of the Board.
Premier's Michelle Allen sits down with Authority Magazine to discuss the five things we must do to improve healthcare.
Premier's Susan DeVore outlines five key trends for the healthcare industry as we head into 2021.
This list of top trends and their implications for governance will help guide discussions on priorities, policies and strategies for the year ahead, writes Premier's...
Long described as a gamechanger in the delivery of care, telehealth adoption remained underutilized in most markets. Until 2020.
Every provider should be actively designing a telehealth strategy or refreshing their existing one. Learn how to capture the telehealth opportunity and create a strategic...
Susan DeVore, CEO of Premier, spoke to Bloomberg Radio about strategies to improve vaccine distribution.
Employers, health systems, clinicians and patients participating in a true COE are enjoying better outcomes and experience amid lower variance and costs.
Atrium Health and Henry Ford Health System have leveraged their existing population health capabilities and technology infrastructure to meet critical care delivery needs during COVID-19.
Premier's surveyed CFOs on their financial recovery strategies, challenges and opportunities related to margin growth, and how COVID-19 has accelerated their movement to value.
Premier’s clients have watched attrition spike, on average seeing turnover of 30% among clinical staff during the last few months says Premier's Andy Brailo.
Contigo's Jonathan Slotkin says companies are displaying a voracious appetite for vaccines for their workforces.
Premier’s experts offer a valuable guide to starting and running a successful ACO, from legal considerations to post-acute care and shadow bundles.
Using the Premier Healthcare Database, this study looked at patients with COVID-19 in US acute care hospitals and high ICU admission and in-hospital mortality rates.
At Premier, our members have partnered with us to find truly innovative solutions to the biggest problems facing healthcare and our nation during the pandemic.
Premier Inc. has named St. Luke’s University Health Network the winner of the 2020 Richard A. Norling Premier Alliance Excellence Award.
This study used a performance platform to enhance clinicians' management of patients with diabetes and osteoporosis.
Premier's CEO, Susan DeVore ranks 6th on Modern Healthcare Top 100 list.
Premier's Seth Edwards shares common ACO success attributes among those on the leading edge.
Soumi Saha discusses the shortage of nurses during the pandemic.
As more providers look toward value-based models amid COVID-19, their clinically integrated networks hold new promise.
A CDC report leveraging Premier's Health Database, says thousands of COVID-19 patients returned to the hospital within two months of being released.
With two-sided risk looming, Premier's experts delve into the manifold benefits of participating in ACOs.
Inside the financial model that Premier’s experts use to help providers transition from volume to value and grow margin.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Call to Freedom, a nonprofit organization focused on navigating a healthy path for victims of human trafficking, has received the 28th...
Partnership leverages Premier’s dataset and proven methodology to scale advancements in care, driving stronger maternal and infant health outcomes in hospitals across the nation
CMS’s proposal would recast providers’ productivity measures. Medical groups should understand the full impact to their compensation plans.
Building and sustaining margin improvement requires a technology-enabled and clinically focused approach across the entire organization.
Think that now is the time to exit BPCI Advanced? Not so fast. The programmatic changes may be less dramatic than they seem on the...
These results outpace the national averages for comparable ACOs.