Boston-Area Hospital to Improve Clinical Quality with Premier, Inc.; Lahey Clinic Will Use Clinical Advisor(TM) for Outpatient Facility Improvement.CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Beginning this month, Lahey Clinic The Lahey Clinic is a not-for-profit teaching hospital in Burlington, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1923 by Dr. Frank H. Lahey. History When Dr. Frank Howard Lahey founded a group practice in 1923, his plan was to create a clinic where many specialties would coexist Medical Center will use Premier, Inc.'s Clinical Advisor(TM) to identify clinical quality improvement opportunities. The Burlington, Mass., hospital signed a three-year agreement to implement the evidence-based solution in late June. "Premier's Clinical Advisor(TM) will help us compare our practice to our peers," said James Vaillancourt, Lahey's manager of outcomes management and reporting. "We intend to use that knowledge to explore ways we can improve the quality of patient care throughout the hospital. We are also very interested in using Clinical Advisor(TM) to explore ways to improve the quality of care we provide in our many group practices. " Premier's Clinical Advisor(TM) identifies opportunities for improvement in clinical quality, cost and utilization via Perspective(TM), the nation's largest clinical comparative database. Perspective maintains more than three billion patient charge records and 2.8 terabytes of data, allowing healthcare facilities to measure clinical outcomes, benchmark against best-practice hospitals and track performance improvement results. During the course of the three-year agreement, Clinical Advisor(TM) will help Lahey Clinic identify clinical and financial opportunities for improvement and prepare for participation in pay-for-performance and public reporting initiatives. The Boston-area hospital serves patients from more than 50 area communities. "Lahey Clinic has been a leader in quality performance and healthcare innovation since the early 1900s," said Stephanie Alexander, senior vice president and general manager of Premier Healthcare Informatics Same as information technology and information systems. The term is more widely used in Europe. . "We're proud to support the hospital's commitment to exceptional patient care, as well as clinical and financial excellence." Premier's tools and services are used by more than 700 hospitals nationwide to improve care, safely reduce costs, adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. regulatory standards and benefit from pay-for-performance initiatives. About Lahey Clinic Medical Center Lahey Clinic, a physician-led, non-profit group practice, is world- renowned for innovative technology, pioneering medical treatment, and leading-edge research. A teaching hospital affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine The Tufts University School of Medicine is one of the eight schools that comprise Tufts University. Located on the university's health sciences campus in the Chinatown district of Boston, Massachusetts, the medical school has clinical affiliations with thousands of doctors and , the clinic provides quality health care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty subspecialty, n a limited portion of a narrowly defined professional discipline. E.g., surgery is a specialty of medicine and pediatric vascular surgery is a subspecialty. , from primary care to cancer diagnosis and treatment to kidney and liver transplantation Liver Transplantation Definition Liver transplantation is a surgery that removes a diseased liver and replace it with a healthy donor liver. Purpose The liver is the body's principle chemical factory. . For more information please visit the Web site, www.lahey.org About Premier Healthcare Informatics Premier Healthcare Informatics offers performance measurement, benchmarking, and reporting products and related advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal and methodologies to support health systems' and hospitals' quality improvement efforts. Among its products and services, Premier Healthcare Informatics offers the Advisor Suite(TM) of clinical and operational performance measurement and reporting solutions; best practice methodologies to directly implement quality improvement programs; project-specific guidance; and on-site expertise to support improvement of clinical outcomes and efficiency of care. Areas of expertise include JCAHO JCAHO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, see there and CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. performance measurement, clinical and operational benchmarking, labor management programs, balanced scorecards Balanced Scorecard A performance metric used in strategic management to identify and improve various internal functions and their resulting external outcomes. The balanced scorecard attempts to measure and provide feedback to organizations in order to assist in implementing , patient satisfaction, evidence-based research, and patient safety. Premier Healthcare Informatics is part of Premier, Inc., a strategic healthcare alliance that provides an array of performance solutions to hospitals and other providers. For more information about Premier Healthcare Informatics, visit www.premierinc.com/informatics or call 800.805.4608. |
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