Premier helps hospitals manage computer assets.Premier Inc., based in Charlotte, N.C., has launched a comprehensive Web-based resource to assist healthcare organizations in the selection, recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. and disposal of computers and electronics. Premier's new Computers and Electronics in Healthcare Web site presents a number of specific purchasing strategies, including contractual guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. for minimal toxicity toxicity /tox·ic·i·ty/ (tok-sis´i-te) the quality of being poisonous, especially the degree of virulence of a toxic microbe or of a poison. of materials, as well as vendor programs for take-back, leasing and upgrades. "Premier recognizes the potential negative impact that computers and electronics have on the environment and public health," James Fosmoe, director of Premier Group Purchasing's Information Technology Services, says. "Premier will be using these guidelines for the selection of hardware manufacturers that provide computers and electronics to our members." Premier's Safety Institute produced the Web-based resource with assistance and support from Health Care Without Harm and the Computer Take Back Campaign. Charlotte Brody, purchasing workgroup coordinator for Health Care Without Harm, called the resource a natural extension of healthcare's purpose. "By adopting these purchasing guidelines, Premier is helping hospitals to fulfill ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. their mission--protecting public health," Brody says. The Web site www.premierinc.com/ safety/resources/computers includes a wide range of resources on computers and electronics, such as a downloadable 10-step guide from Hospitals for a Healthy Environment that provides information on managing electronic products by keeping health, safety and compliance as priorities and a list of environmentally preferable procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. guidelines for IT equipment in health care, prepared by the Computer Take Back Campaign and Health Care Without Harm. Premier Inc. is a strategic alliance in U.S. healthcare U.S. Healthcare is a now-defunct healthcare company. The logo had an apple. The merger with Aetna In 1996, the company merged with Aetna, calling it Aetna U.S. Healthcare. The U.S. Healthcare apple logo was next to the Aetna name, and U.S. Healthcare under it. U.S. , entirely owned by 200 of the nation's leading hospital and health care systems. These systems operate or are affiliated with approximately 1,500 hospitals in 50 states and hundreds of other care sites. Premier provides resources supporting health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract delivery in the key areas of supply chain improvement and group purchasing, comparative data and benchmarking and insurance. |
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