Henry Ford Innovations, Premier Inc. Partner to Incubate Innovation and Advance Clinical Research

Henry Ford Innovations (HFI), one of the nation’s leading healthcare innovation programs, has partnered with Premier, Inc.’s PINC AI Applied Sciences (PAS) to accelerate the research, testing and development of new products, services, interventions and other novel healthcare initiatives.

HFI and PAS will partner in three distinct areas:

• To jointly leverage data, clinical input and other research to evaluate novel, new therapies and interventions for commercial development.
• To conduct prospective research on specific care pathways and other interventions using real-world data and evidence (RWD/RWE).
• To improve the quality and speed of clinical trials using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify the best possible patient candidates more rapidly.

“The mission of Henry Ford Innovations is to foster discoveries and advancements that improve people’s lives. Our relationship with PINC AI and their industry partners adds ‘rocket fuel’ to our existing data-focused work, from clinical research to quality, value and operational efficiency. The resulting projects and commercial development will improve healthcare for all of us,” said Lisa Prasad, Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of Henry Ford Health.

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