Premier : The problem with contradictory performance measures in medicine
October 01, 2015 at 06:46 pm EDT
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The Wall Street Journal: Research has found significant variation in healthcare outcomes and costs. To address this, healthcare providers, consumer groups, payers, and the government have created measures to assess individual provider and health system performance. The goals of these measures are to provide the public with data they can use to make better choices, to measure and reward top performance and to identify performance gaps. Holding providers accountable for results is admirable, but today's application of performance measures is seriously flawed, requiring a hard stop to regroup and work toward a consensus driven approach.
Premier, Inc. is a healthcare improvement company uniting an alliance of approximately 4,350 United States hospitals and health systems and approximately 300,000 other providers and organizations. It operates through two segments: Supply Chain Services and Performance Services. The Supply Chain Services segment includes the Companyâs group purchasing organizations (GPO), supply chain co-management, purchased services, and direct sourcing activities. The Performance Services segment consists of three sub-brands, which include PINC AI, the Companyâs technology and services platform; Contigo Health, the Companyâs direct-to-employer business; and Remitra, the Companyâs digital invoicing and payables business. It delivers technology-enabled platform that offers critical supply chain services, clinical, financial, operational and value-based care software as a service (SaaS) as well as clinical and enterprise analytics licenses, consulting services, and third-party administrator services.
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