Big Data At Its Best: PremierConnect Driving Next Wave For Members
Adventist Health System (Altamonte Springs, Fla.), Adventist Health (Roseville, Ca.), Adventist Healthcare, Gaithersburg, Md.) and Kettering Health Network (Dayton, Oh.) have pooled their $1.5 billion in demand to save money and improve care delivery. These same members had already saved $5.4 million since forming the initiative two years ago –on top of the more than $200 million combined in quality and cost improvement savings they achieved as Premier members over the same period. Obviously, there is nothing new about Premier members forming regional and national SCM collaboratives, but the success of Premier’s PremierConnect information sharing platform is driving these same [...]
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Best of the Healthcare Supply Chain Honored with GHXcellence Awards
Yesterday, GHX today announced the winners of its 13th Annual GHXcellence Awards. The winners were announced yesterday and are being honored at this year’s GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit, currently in progress in Las Vegas. New for this year, GHX honored an individual supply chain leader for work in improving the business of healthcare with its GHXcellence Leadership Award. In early 2013, GHX called on its community to submit nominations for the award and then invited the entire healthcare industry to vote for the winner. This year’s winner is: GHXcellence Leadership Award: Réginé Honoré Villain, corporate director of Supply Chain [...]
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