Perficient, Premier healthcare alliance to Deliver Transformative Healthcare Analytics to Improve Patient Care
Perficient,
Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT), a leading information technology consulting
firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers throughout
North America, has agreed to develop software applications on PremierConnectTM,
the largest integrated technology and social business platform in
healthcare. One of the first products Perficient will develop on the
PremierConnect platform will provide a snapshot of how providers are
performing against the 33 Accountable Care Organization (ACO) quality
measures defined by the Affordable Care Act.
Perficient and the Premier healthcare alliance worked in partnership
with IBM to develop PremierConnect as a business intelligence, data
warehousing and social networking solution optimized for the
requirements of healthcare provider organizations.
Due to healthcare reform, hospitals and health systems must improve
patient care while lowering costs. To do this successfully, they must
share information, insights and best practices. Armed with the clinical
and financial-based analytical data available through PremierConnect,
providers can more meaningfully measure, analyze and understand their
performance, and then take action based on these insights.
PremierConnect also helps them stay abreast of regulatory and policy
shifts related to Accountable Care, Meaningful Use and population health
management.
“The applications we’re developing on PremierConnect, including the ACO
33 application and a Total Cost of Care offering, better enable Premier
members to meet regulatory demands, enhance collaboration, lower costs
and ultimately improve patient care,” said Dr. Marcie Stoshak-Chavez,
MD, FACEP, and Perficient’s director of Healthcare. “As a physician,
this is a key benefit: we’re under constant pressure to improve care
across the continuum while controlling costs, raising productivity and
engaging patients. These applications will allow us to address these
challenges directly at the point of care.”
“We are on the cusp of the next generation health system,” said Keith J.
Figlioli, senior vice president, healthcare informatics, Premier. “We’ve
built a platform that promotes collaboration among doctors, nurses and
administrators by delivering data, best practices and the collective
experience and insight of the Premier alliance to these stakeholders. It
supports their diverse requirements while enabling them to create
communities of interest around shared performance improvement
objectives. Perficient’s commitment to our value-added development
partner program will enable our members to accelerate their ability to
deliver higher quality, lower cost of care to the communities that they
serve.”
Premier, an alliance of 2,800 hospitals and 93,000 other care sites,
integrates payor, provider and supply chain data in PremierConnect. The
platform links providers nationwide with data on 1 in 4 U.S. hospital
discharges, evidence-based best practices from 2.5 million daily
clinical transactions and more than $40 billion worth of annual
purchasing data. This scope of intelligence enables data-driven,
evidence-based decisions that save lives, remove waste and help
coordinate care delivery.
“Due to our relationships with Premier and IBM, our deep healthcare
technology expertise and our award-winning healthcare national practice,
Perficient is uniquely positioned to bring PremierConnect-based
applications to the market,” said Matt Castle, director of healthcare
systems intelligence, Perficient. “Perficient is committed to developing
compelling intellectual property assets for the healthcare industry. To
support the performance improvement goals of the Premier alliance, we’ve
established a development group that is solely focused on creating
clinical, operational and financial business intelligence applications
for PremierConnect. ”
The first applications developed by Perficient for PremierConnect will
be available to Premier members in the third quarter of 2013.
About Perficient
Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving
Global 2000 and enterprise customers throughout North America.
Perficient’s professionals serve clients from a network of offices
across North America and three offshore locations, in Eastern Europe,
India, and China. Perficient helps clients use Internet-based
technologies to improve productivity and competitiveness, strengthen
relationships with customers, suppliers and partners, and reduce
information technology costs. Perficient, traded on the Nasdaq Global
Select Market(SM), is a member of the Russell 2000® index and the S&P
SmallCap 600 index. Perficient is an award-winning “Premier Level” IBM
business partner, a TeamTIBCO partner, a Microsoft National Systems
Integrator and Gold Certified Partner, an EMC Select Services Team
Partner, and an Oracle Platinum Partner. For more information, please
visit www.perficient.com.
About the Premier healthcare alliance, Malcolm Baldrige National
Quality Award recipient
Premier is the nation’s largest performance improvement alliance of more
than 2,800 U.S. hospitals and 93,000 other sites using the power of
collaboration and technology to lead the transformation to coordinated,
high-quality, cost-effective care. Owned by healthcare providers,
Premier operates a leading purchasing network with more than $5 billion
in annual savings. Premier also maintains clinical, financial and
outcomes databases based on 1 in every 4 patient discharges. A world
leader in measurably improving patient care, Premier has the largest
performance improvement collaboratives in America, including one in
partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier also has an office in
Washington. https://www.premierinc.com.
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