Success Story: Premier, Inc.

The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform™ powers the Premier Performance Suite™, a comprehensive offering of hospital performance tools to analyze and monitor quality and safety, labor management, and supply chain channels for a global approach to improving overall quality and cost. Premier, Inc. is a healthcare alliance owned by 200 of the nation’s leading not-for-profit hospital and healthcare systems.

MicroStrategy’s platform supports Premier’s data applications — including ClinicalAdvisor™ and OperationsAdvisor™ — which helps its hospital clients make informed decisions on clinical quality and patient safety, business and market strategy, clinical resource utilization, operational performance, and productivity. More than 500 of Premier’s clients use the MicroStrategy platform through the Premier Performance Suite tools to monitor and measure their clinical and cost performance.

In 2003, Premier and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) joined forces in the CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) project, which is the first national pay-for-performance project of its kind, designed to determine if financial incentives are effective at improving the quality of inpatient hospital care. Hospitals that participate in the project are eligible for increased Medicare payments for delivering high quality care to patients that are being treated for specific clinical conditions: heart bypass surgery, heart attack, congestive heart failure, hip and knee replacement, and community acquired pneumonia. More than 260 hospitals are voluntarily participating in the project, which monitors and analyzes hospitals’ clinical outcomes based on evidence-based care processes. The HQID project’s foundation for tracking hospital performance is Premier’s Perspective™ database, the largest clinical comparative database in the nation.

“MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software supports this important demonstration project and the ongoing applications we need,” said Premier’s Director of Applications Development, Todd Wilkes. “Premier has spent many years establishing a capability on a scale required for this project as well as our clients’ needs. We rely on many partners, including MicroStrategy, to help us create a comprehensive solution for the industry.”

Serving 1,700 hospitals and more than 46,500 other healthcare sites, Premier, a 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient, is the largest healthcare alliance in the United States dedicated to improving patient outcomes while safely reducing the cost of care. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates the nation’s largest healthcare purchasing network, the most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information and one of the largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups in healthcare. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, NC and Washington.