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1) What is Premier? What does it do?

Premier is an alliance of healthcare providers which serves more than 2600 US hospitals and 84,000 plus other healthcare sites. It helps its members to reduce the cost and improve quality of care. It also helps its members in staying ahead of health reform and other new models of health care delivery.

2) What were the main challenges for Premier to achieve its vision?

Premier’s processes and the systems used to implement the processes were isolated. ²his made it diFcult for the members to connect di³erent sources of data and metrics and see everything that relates to a speci´c iniTaTve at one place and decide on how to drive the iniTaTve. It also lacked the scalability required to support massive transacTon volumes.

3) What was the soluTon provided by IBM and other partners?

Solution:

Solution:

Big Data, Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Modernization, Smarter Analytics, Smarter Analytics - Increase operational efficiency, Smarter Computing, Smarter Planet

Premier is implementing a high-performance, integrated warehouse of trusted information that enables its members to analyze data from more than 86,000 healthcare providers, and identify best practices to improve patient health while safely reducing healthcare costs.

Benefits:

Offers potentially enormous benefits for saving lives, helping people enjoy healthier lives, and reducing healthcare costs. In one Premier project, 157 participating hospitals saved an estimated 24,800 lives while reducing healthcare spending by USD 2.85 billion; Helps providers better identify which treatments will enable their patients to live longer, healthier lives; Supports Premier members’ work to address healthcare reform and other legislative requirements.

²he soluTon proposed by IBM and its partners was to use IBM POWER7 processor-based systems instead of the exisTng x86 servers from various vendors and also to use products like IBM...