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North Shore - LIJ Health System Expands Relationship With the Premier Healthcare Alliance to Improve Patient Outcomes, Reduce Costs

Posted on: Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 12:00 CDT

The North Shore - Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System, the nation's third-largest non-profit, secular healthcare system, has expanded its agreement with the Premier healthcare alliance to use Premier ClinicalAdvisor™ for quality measurement, benchmarking and regulatory reporting. North Shore-LIJ will utilize Premier ClinicalAdvisor at all 10 of its locations across Long Island, Queens and Staten Island.

"Now more than ever, value and outcome are being used to assess healthcare organizations' performance," said Joseph Conte, senior vice president of quality management at the 15-hospital North Shore-LIJ Health System, based in Great Neck, NY. "Premier's Clinical Advisor offers a uniform approach to evaluate the performance of our complex health system, using a risk adjustment methodology that accesses the most current data available."

Premier ClinicalAdvisor offers benchmarking, analysis, consulting, knowledge-sharing and other customized services to help hospitals and health systems close performance gaps identified through use of comparative data on patient outcomes, cost and clinical resource utilization.

"Premier is pleased to have the opportunity to assist a world-renowned healthcare system like North Shore-LIJ in improving patient outcomes while reducing costs," said Stephanie Alexander, senior vice president and general manager for Premier Healthcare Informatics. "Premier ClinicalAdvisor's power lies in its ability to quickly provide critical performance measurements against comparative benchmarks. When utilizing Premier ClinicalAdvisor, hospitals have more flexibility and time to leverage detailed comparative clinical outcome measures, clinical resource utilization and transaction-level cost data, all of which enables hospitals to make data-driven decisions."

With Premier ClinicalAdvisor, hospitals can:

Prioritize quality improvement efforts and set measurable goals;

Improve financial performance through service line analysis;

Achieve regulatory compliance with a single solution for submitting quality measures;

Formalize physician feedback with presentation-ready reports;

Identify misuse by analyzing utilization of resources, down to the transaction level; and

Employ nationally-recognized 3M™ APR-DRG severity and risk adjustment methodologies.

Premier ClinicalAdvisor is part of the Premier Performance Suite™, the healthcare industry's leading integrated benchmarking, reporting and surveillance solution for improving quality, safety, labor productivity, and operational and supply costs. Premier ClinicalAdvisor and the Performance Suite are powered by Perspective™, the largest integrated clinical, financial and operational comparative database in the nation, providing patient-level detail to identify opportunities for improvement in clinical quality and efficiency.

About The North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System

The nation's third largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system, the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System cares for people of all ages throughout Long Island, Queens and Staten Island -- a service area encompassing more than 5 million people. The health system includes 15 hospitals, four long-term care facilities, a medical research institute, four trauma centers, five home health agencies and dozens of out-patient centers. North Shore-LIJ facilities house more than 6,000 beds, and are staffed by over 8,000 physicians, 10,500 nurses and a total workforce of about 37,500 -- the largest employer on Long Island and the ninth largest in New York City.

About Premier, 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient

Serving 1,700 hospitals and more than 45,000 other healthcare sites, Premier Inc. is the largest healthcare alliance in the United States dedicated to improving patient outcomes while safely reducing the cost of care. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates the nation's largest healthcare purchasing network, the most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information and one of the largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups in healthcare. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C. and Washington. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.

Source: Business Wire

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