What You Should Know:
Boston Health Economics (BHE) inks partnership Premier Inc.
to streamline data analytics and more quickly uncover strategies to
improve patient care.
Researchers and data scientists will have on-demand
access to the all-payer database, including recent COVID-19 data, and the
capability to complete analyses 85% faster and at higher quality than
traditional custom programming.
Boston Health Economics (BHE),
a healthcare self-service analytics company, and Premier Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
(Premier), a healthcare improvement company, are joining forces to
streamline data analytics and more quickly uncover strategies that
could improve patient care. Through the partnership, Premier Applied
Sciences, the research division of Premier , will offer its
gold-standard Premier Healthcare
Database through BHE’s market-leading healthcare analytics platform,
Instant Health Data (IHD), providing researchers and data scientists with the
capability for performing data analytics without time-consuming,
custom programming.
Integration Details
Leveraging the Premier Healthcare Database,
researchers will be able to drive more timely results in crucial areas such as
patient comorbidities, treatment patterns, and drug effectiveness and safety.
By enabling researchers to more quickly uncover strategies to improve patient
care, this partnership will be able to influence key decision-making, driving
improvements and results for clinicians and policymakers alike.
“As we continue to navigate the ongoing pandemic, the
ability to access up-to-date real-world data and efficiently conduct robust
analysis is more important than ever,” said Joseph Menzin, Ph.D.,
founder and CEO of BHE. “Speeding the development and dissemination of
impactful research is vital for the U.S. response to COVID-19, as it can help
governments, healthcare providers and communities respond to patient needs and
provide high-quality care.”
Approach
Using a unique masked identifier, the Premier Healthcare
Database can track outcomes, care, demographics and more measures for
individual patients within a hospital and in outpatient settings, with the
ability to assess inpatient length of stay and readmissions.
“The Premier Healthcare Database has a long
history as a gold standard for observational research,” said Denise Juliano,
Group Vice President for Premier Applied Sciences. “Since 2000, more
than 600 publications have cited the Premier Healthcare Database as a
trusted and reliable source. We look forward to making our data available on
demand through the IHD platform to enable high-quality research at
record speed during this unprecedented time.”
