Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

Armonk, N.Y. and Charlotte, N.C., USA - January 06, 2011

IBM and the Premier Healthcare Alliance to Integrate Nation's Healthcare Data to Gain Insight, Measure Performance and Improve Population Health

IBM (NYSE:IBM) and the Premier healthcare alliance today announced plans to integrate health information from across hospitals and other healthcare sites.

More than 2,400 hospitals and thousands of other healthcare sites will benefit from this model to help improve clinical outcomes, reduce waste and prepare for new methods of delivering care required by health reform.

Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

IBM and Premier will develop an industry-first technology platform to gain insights on, measure and improve the health of the population.
This will support hospitals, doctors and other health providers in working together to enhance patient safety while reducing the overuse of procedures, readmissions, unnecessary ER visits and hospital-acquired conditions.

Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

Recent research from the Institute of Medicine and the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests enhanced use of health data is needed to reduce fragmentation of medical information that results in higher medical costs and increased likelihood of adverse medical events.

Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

In most healthcare settings, the data needed to make these improvements is stored in many different formats and multiple locations.
This same information also needs to be made more accessible to support accountable care organizations mandated under the Affordable Care Act that reimburse providers for quality of care, not volume of care.

Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

"Doctors and other medical personnel need relevant, meaningful and real-time information at the point of care delivery to make better decisions about how to treat each patient," said Billings Clinic CEO Nicholas Wolter, MD.
"Comprehensive information like this helps connect the dots, allowing us to see what type of care works best for patients and how we as caregivers can make the biggest impact in keeping people well."

Glenn Steele Jr., MD, PhD, President and CEO at Geisinger. Photo: Geisinger

According to Lynn Miller, executive vice president, clinical operations at Geisinger Health System,
"We know that effective data can improve outcomes, reduce readmissions and eliminate duplicative and unnecessary care. Doctors, hospitals and insurance companies using information-sharing platforms set the true foundation for redesigning how healthcare is delivered and paid for."

Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

For patients, this means greater certainty they will get the most effective treatment possible. It will also provide better assurance that the care they receive follows best practices from leading hospitals and healthcare experts across the nation.
In addition, the model will enable comparative effectiveness by demonstrating how effectively various medical treatments improve health outcomes and conditions.

Susan D. DeVore, President and CEO of the Premier healthcare alliance. Photo: the Premier healthcare alliance.

"For the first time, all members in the healthcare system will be able to easily access data that is consistent and unified to help reduce preventable harm and waste," said Susan DeVore, president and CEO of Premier.
"This has been the missing link in helping move the mark on evidence-based medicine by using new insight to transform the quality and cost-effectiveness of care. It's a win-win-win for providers, patients and payors – care is more effective, people are happier and spend less time in care settings, and excess costs are reduced."

Premier’s ACO Collaboratives. ACO Operating Model. Source: the Premier healthcare alliance.

Results from Premier's QUEST® initiative show the improvements that could be made in the inpatient setting alone by incorporating this type of data sharing model.

The project's 157 participating hospitals saved an estimated 22,164 lives and reduced healthcare spending by $2.13 billion.

IBM Healthcare solution areas. The IBM Health Integration Framework. Source: IBM

Estimates projected an additional 64,000 lives and $23 billion could have been saved if all hospitals in the country had been able to achieve results similar to those in QUEST.

Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

Participants in Premier's Accountable Care Implementation Collaborative will leverage the model to exchange data.

Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

The collaborative is currently composed of 25 health systems with more than 90 hospitals and 5,000 physicians providing care for 1.4 million patients across 19 states.

Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

They include:
Billings Clinic; Bon Secours Health System Inc.; Fairview Health Services; Geisinger Health System; North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System; Presbyterian Healthcare Services; Summa Health System; and Texas Health Resources.

Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

Premier will begin to offer these capabilities to its more than 2,400 member hospitals and 70,000-plus other care sites starting in spring 2011.

Dan Pelino, General Manager, IBM Global Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry. Photo: IBM

According to Dan Pelino, general manager, IBM healthcare and life sciences,
"Without access to this data, the majority of providers simply cannot offer the type of accountable care that regulations require and patients deserve. Our work with Premier will help clinical, administrative and financial decision makers easily and efficiently access information that could improve care. This is a necessity to transform healthcare delivery, bending the cost curve while improving the quality of care."

Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

The initiative will access Premier's clinical, financial and operational comparative database, the nation's largest compilation of inpatient data containing nearly 40 percent of all U.S. hospital discharges.
It will also incorporate non-hospital data (physician practice and other ambulatory settings) and health plan data.

Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

Examples of this data include:

• Clinical data regarding how care was delivered and related outcomes;

• Supply chain data that incorporates clinical outcomes with costs; and

• Operational data regarding labor efficiency and overall operating costs.

Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

The new industry standard, pre-integrated platform for data acquisition, transformation, real time validation and meaningful metrics is built on the IBM Health Integration Framework.

Smarter Healthcare. To build a smarter system, healthcare solutions need to be instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Source: IBM / YouTube

It is powered by IBM Smarter Analytics System with DB2 data warehouse.

Source: IBM / YouTube

The IBM information management portfolio will be used to acquire, transform, validate and populate the jointly developed healthcare data model.

Initiate software master data management and WebSphere Healthcare ESB provide a single view of the constituent or entity, identity resolution and data acquisition.

WebSphere software provides clinical and business rules management.

Tivoli software provides security and service management.

Application development is built upon Rational software and a common user experience and collaboration is provided through Lotus software.

The entire system runs on IBM POWER7 technology.

About the Premier healthcare alliance, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient

Premier is a performance improvement alliance of more than 2,400 U.S. hospitals and 70,000-plus other healthcare sites using the power of collaboration to lead the transformation to high quality, cost-effective care.

Owned by hospitals, health systems and other providers, Premier maintains the nation's most comprehensive repository of clinical, financial and outcomes information and operates a leading healthcare purchasing network.

A world leader in helping deliver measurable improvements in care, Premier works with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West to improve hospital performance.

Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier also has offices in San Diego, Philadelphia and Washington.

http://www.premierinc.com  

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Dan Pelino

General Manager, IBM Global Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry

Dan Pelino Photo: IBM

Dan Pelino serves as General Manager for IBM’s Global Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry.
In this worldwide role, he leads the corporation in helping clients create smarter, more connected healthcare systems, working closely with public and private healthcare providers and payers.

Dan is a recognized expert in the areas of healthcare transformation and health IT.
Under his leadership, IBM has been involved in helping transform and digitize health systems worldwide.

He has formed numerous partnerships with many of the largest health systems focusing on new care models, analytic solutions and unique approaches to the optimization and cost challenges of technology infrastructure.

Dan received his Master’s Degree in Organizational Communications and his Bachelor of Science undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Public Relations from Western Kentucky University.

He joined IBM in 1980.


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Susan D. DeVore

President and CEO of the Premier healthcare alliance

Susan D. DeVore Photo: the Premier healthcare alliance

Susan D. DeVore is president and CEO of the Premier healthcare alliance, the nation's leading alliance of nonprofit hospitals, health systems and other providers dedicated to improving healthcare performance.
An alliance of more than 2,400 hospitals and health systems and 70,000-plus other healthcare delivery sites, Premier uses the power of collaboration to lead the transformation to high quality, cost-effective healthcare.

Representing nearly 40 percent of all hospitals in the country, Premier unites a fragmented healthcare system.
Backed by the nation’s largest and most detailed clinical, financial and outcomes database with information on more than 309 million patient discharges, Premier measures hospital performance against peers and best performers, identifies opportunities for improvement, and tracks the results of their efforts.

Premier also provides group purchasing and supply chain services to providers worth more than $36 billion in annual spend; as well as insurance management, informatics, technology and consulting services.

A world leader in helping deliver measurable improvements in care, Premier manages leading national collaboratives, including the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration™, co-managed with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; the QUEST®: High Performing Hospitals initiative; and collaboratives to facilitate the transition to accountable care organizations in healthcare.

Premier’s data is also used by the Food and Drug Administration for drug surveillance and by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to evaluate next-generation payment models.

Prior to her role as president and CEO, DeVore served as chief operating officer of Premier and president of Premier Purchasing Partners.

Before joining Premier, she spent more than 20 years with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGEY) as a senior healthcare industry management practice leader and member of the executive committee for the North American consulting organization.
She also led high-tech, manufacturing and other business units of CGEY, giving her a broad understanding of business issues and solutions across multiple industries.

Under DeVore's leadership, Premier has won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and has been named three times as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere.

DeVore has been named to Modern Healthcare's list of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare and to the magazine's list of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare.
She is also the recipient of the 2007 Top 25 Women in Business by the Charlotte Business Journal.

DeVore is involved in the Charlotte community as a member of the Master of Health Administration Healthcare Management Advisory Board in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.


SOURCE: the Premier healthcare alliance

http://www.premierinc.com/about/mission/leadership/susan-devore-bio.jsp



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