Published in: Charlotte Business Journal
Mike Alkire is CEO Premier Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), a company headquartered in Ballantyne that offers integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, consulting and other services to improve the health of communities.
How has the rise of Al influenced your company's overall strategic priorities, and what specific areas of the business are seeing the most significant impact?
Premier plays a unique role within the healthcare ecosystem, uniting providers, suppliers, payers and policymakers to make health care better with national scale, smarter with actionable intelligence and faster with novel technologies.
Our Al is backed by decades' worth of robust quality, cost and operational data that allow for hospitals and health systems to have more efficient purchasing and operations. We also generate insights that improve patient outcomes and support groundbreaking research using real-world evidence.
We have identified several areas through which we can have the greatest impact on the U.S. healthcare system, including: revenue optimization; enhancing workforce productivity and performance benchmarking; innovating and accelerating clinical research; optimizing care coordination and predicting disease progression; and streamlining unglamorous administrative processes.
Contact: Public_Relations@premierinc.com
