“Until now, providers have been on their own to translate local surges into immediately meaningful information regarding capacity and supplies,” Alkire added. “COVID-19 hospitalization data currently provided by sources like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not the same as COVID-19 hospital census, and it often lags by a week or more. By using hospital census, or the number of patients in the hospital at a given time, Premier is offering providers a more relevant input for planning.”
This crisis planning and forecasting tool leverages PremierConnect®, Premier’s cloud-based performance improvement platform, and is currently available to all Premier members at no cost as part of Premier’s differentiated solutions to the challenges healthcare providers face. Premier members can subscribe by email to individualized, daily COVID-19 reports for their facilities.
About Premier Inc.
Premier Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC) is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of more than 4,000 U.S. hospitals and health systems and approximately 175,000 other providers and organizations to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, and consulting and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost. Premier plays a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, collaborating with members to co-develop long-term innovations that reinvent and improve the way care is delivered to patients nationwide. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier is passionate about transforming American healthcare.
Back to HCB News
