Premier Expands Safety Advisor Service with Incident Reporting from Quantros.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Clients of Premier's Safety Advisor service now have access to the Quantros Safety and Risk Management software suite. Premier, Inc., a leading alliance of not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare systems and Quantros, Inc., a pioneer in web-based medical errors/incident reporting and analysis, have announced a collaborative relationship.

Premier's Safety Advisor is an innovative tool that provides clinical staff ready access to the latest research-based clinical guidelines. It guides the implementation of order sets at the point of care, identifies variations in clinical care practices, and helps formulate clinical information technology strategy. Safety Advisor interacts seamlessly with any computerized physician order entry (CPOE) platform.

"This agreement between Quantros and Premier is a significant step forward for advancing patient safety and making our healthcare systems safer," said Sanjaya Kumar, MD, President and CMO, Quantros, Inc. "This relationship delivers significant benefit to Premier member hospitals by enabling them to track, manage, and analyze adverse event and near miss data in an enterprise-wide, web-based system. The arrangement with Premier, a known leader within the hospital safety arena" continued Dr. Kumar, "is further validation for Quantros and its leadership position within this important, growing market."

"We are excited about adding Quantros Safety and Risk Management software to Safety Advisor. Inclusion of Quantros's application will expand the Premier Healthcare Informatics services to include adverse event and near miss data and enhance the ability of healthcare organizations to identify and address patient safety issues proactively," said Stephanie Alexander, senior vice president and general manager of Healthcare Informatics at Premier.

As part of it's commitment to safety, Premier also operates the Premier Safety Institute which provides safety resources and tools to promote a safe healthcare delivery environment for patients, workers, and their communities. "The addition of the Quantros Safety & Risk software will enable hospitals to improve occurrence reporting and analysis which will support their efforts to create a culture of safety," Alexander said.

About Quantros, Inc.

Quantros is the leading developer of software products that help hospitals digitize, organize, automate and analyze information regarding patient safety and benchmarking as well as providing support for accreditation and compliance. Quantros has applications tailored for leading healthcare providers, payers and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Our standardized, browser-based platform automates tedious manual processes and delivers real-time data that makes your organization more informed and productive. Quantros products are currently used by more than 900 hospitals. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley and maintains a sales network throughout the United States.

About Premier and Healthcare Informatics

Premier Healthcare Informatics tools and services are used by hundreds of hospitals nationwide to improve care, safely reduce costs, adhere to regulatory standards, and benefit from pay-for-performance initiatives. The Advisor Suite supports hospitals with detailed clinical, operations, satisfaction, and safety information and performance improvement expertise. 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.