CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan 10, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Healthcare experts from the Premier
healthcare alliance will address the importance of integrating
healthcare information technology (HIT), connecting labor with quality
and adopting effective unique device identifiers this month.
Keith
J. Figlioli, Premier senior vice president of Healthcare
Informatics, will speak at the 2012 Accountable Care and Health IT
Strategies Summit in Miami on January 19. He will discuss Premier's work
with IBM
in expanding its technology platform to better integrate healthcare data
across the entire continuum of care, and support performance improvement
and measurement for new care delivery models.
Premier, an InformationWeek
500 top technology innovator, houses the nation's largest
compilation of clinical, financial and operational inpatient outcomes
data, containing nearly 20 percent of all U.S. hospital discharges.