Premier healthcare alliance client video

Premier healthcare alliance uses a business process manage solution from IBM to drive transformation and change in healthcare.

Video Transcript

Interviewee: Denise Hatzidakis, CTO, Premier Healthcare Alliance

Premier is a health care alliance; we are a for-profit owned by 200 nonprofit hospital systems. We have the largest supply chain, clinical, analytical, financial, operational database in the country.

Our mission is to drive performance and quality improvement in health care.

Evidence-based care requires a clinical data so we started developing a clinical arm to the organization. And now the next evolution of health care with all the reform is going on, is bringing that data together.

The data comes from a lot of different places. It comes from the systems in the hospitals. It comes real time off the HL7 hub in the hospitals. Some of it comes in flat files. Some of it comes in Excel spreadsheets.

For us it’s really about making the data and the information actionable.

We looked across the industry and who were the leaders in this space, in the industry, who would be able to bring to bear a platform, technologies, tools, go to market, etc. in the same way we wanted to, and IBM was by far our partner of choice.

Other advantages we found in partnering with IBM was the focus on health care and health care assets IBM has to bring to bear. Things like the HL7 ESB, the HIPAA pack with Transformation Extender, and those kind of things were assets that we felt were extremely valuable.

And so as we are helping to drive transformation and change in health care, mirroring that clinical supply chain data together is what will allow us to be able to drive continuum of care cost and continue to drive improvements in health care.

So using rules and Business Process Management and Business Events, we use them multiple ways.

To do our business process improvement and to be able to bring together the rules and the analytics and the content, we are leveraging things, we are leveraging the ILOG JRules, we are leveraging WebSphere Business Events and Lombardi to bring together different aspects of business process.

So not only do we look at performance improvements with respect to clinical procedures, we also look at performance improvement with respect to resource allocation, waste, financial improvement.

If I use less resource, or I use more resource, or I used a different technique, or I used a different resource mix, from a human resources perspective, what that would bring so we would be able to start to get into some predictive analytics around the business processes.

We have seen direct quantifiable and measurable results across our members in doing this work. With our HQID initiative, which is about improvements based on evidence-based care, we have been to show an improvement of over 67% in hip and knee replacements over the last 24 quarters, and for example, an improvement of over 60% in heart bypass procedures over the last 24 quarters.

Our time to market will be markedly decreased by leveraging the skills and experience of partners like IBM and Perficient.

By changing the way we use data in health care, making that data actionable, we can save lives, save money and improve the health of our populations.