CHARLOTTE, N.C. (March 9, 2017) — Adventist Health System, a faith-based healthcare organization headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida, has expanded its partnership with Premier Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), a leading healthcare improvement company, to use pharmacy clinical surveillance and analytics in its effort to better treat diseases.

A member of Premier for more than 20 years, Adventist Health System uses clinical, operational and supply chain analytics in the PremierConnect® performance improvement platform. By expanding its partnership in 40 hospitals across nine states, Adventist Health System will integrate Premier’s pharmacy clinical surveillance and analytics with existing PremierConnect analytics to enhance medication management and antibiotic stewardship.

“Patient safety has always been a top priority at Adventist Health System,” said Loran D. Hauck, MD, chief clinical officer for Adventist Health System. “Premier’s pharmacy clinical surveillance and analytics solution will help our pharmacists forecast and identify opportunity areas, prioritize next steps, document interventions and benchmark progress across the continuum. This is particularly important as we enhance our antimicrobial stewardship program with capabilities to quickly identify situations where antibiotics have no clinical benefit and reduce the emergence of antibiotic resistance.”

PremierConnect pharmacy clinical surveillance and analytics, powered by TheraDoc®, streamline data for pharmacists to target clinical intervention opportunities, track performance with customizable departmental reports and alerts, and optimize drug therapies in real-time. Providers use the solution to create or enhance antimicrobial stewardship programs by identifying cases of antibiotic overuse, reducing time-to-appropriate therapy and enhancing treatments for difficult-to-treat pathogens. Additionally, the solution helps providers adhere to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Healthcare Safety Network reporting requirements.

“Adventist Health System is a leading organization that is committed to fostering an environment where patient safety and the efficacious use of life-saving drug therapies is a top priority,” said Leigh Anderson, chief information officer, Premier. “We’re thrilled they chose to build on their relationship with Premier to improve disease treatments and reduce the administrative burden on pharmacists whose time is better spent focusing on delivering safe and effective care.”

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