Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) www.nahealth.com the largest healthcare organization in the region with 3,000 healthcare professionals across two hospitals and multiple ambulatory clinics, surgery, and treatment centers, has signed an agreement with Premier Inc., www.premierinc.com.
NAH is going to implement system-wide supply analytics to be powered by the cloud-based PremierConnect® platform. The Premier platform houses clinical data on approximately 40 percent of U.S patient discharges and receives more than $48 billion in annual purchasing information.
Premier advisors will work with NAH to drive and sustain efficiencies to eliminate variations, streamline operations, and improve outcomes in care delivery practices. This is going to help unify purchasing, standardize, integrate, and analyze spend data to generate savings across NAH.
Susan DeVore, President and CEO Premier said, “Success in healthcare today requires a holistic approach to cost and quality improvement but by using interoperable technologies is able to provide full visibility into spend and practice patterns for timely evidence-based decisions.”