Clinical Research Collaboration Between Premier, Inc.’s PINC AI™ Applied Sciences and McLaren Health Care Aims to Advance Patient Outcomes

Charlotte, N.C., March 6, 2024 – Premier, Inc.’s PINC AI™ Applied Sciences (PAS) team announced a data and research collaboration with McLaren Health Care focused on improving health outcomes and the delivery of medical care.

The partnership combines PAS’ expertise in convening experts to advise research development, providing robust research and analytics capabilities, and scaling a national network of health systems to develop insights with McLaren’s commitment to improve population health – paving the way for innovative research and rapid advancements in patient outcomes.

The collaboration, with a keen focus on McLaren’s priorities of advancing research and clinical care medicine, demonstrates a commitment to driving impactful change at the intersection of data analytics, expertise and community needs. To date, McLaren and PAS have done exemplary work together focused on population health, chronic conditions and critical care.

“Leveraging PAS’ cutting-edge data analytics and technology, collaborations like this one allow for interdisciplinary analyses to uncover nuanced insights into healthcare delivery,” said Denise Juliano, Group Vice President, PINC AI™ Applied Sciences. “By combining clinical data with social determinants of health, our research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the factors contributing to disparities in these critical areas. Marrying PAS’ award-winning approach to research and discovery with McLaren’s commitment to quality, evidence-based patient care, we can accelerate our goal of rapidly moving the needle on expanding our research and our clinical trial portfolios together.”

“Despite years of scholarship highlighting poor outcomes and disparities in care, few organizations have developed real-world solutions for improvement,” said Chandan Gupte, Vice President of Clinical Excellence and Research, McLaren Health Care. “The PAS team’s ability to bring robust real-world data to the table to drive research is a game changer. We’re thrilled to work with PAS to improve patient-centered care in the U.S.”

This collaboration represents a powerful synergy between expertise and community needs, with a dedicated focus on enhanced clinical outcomes. PAS and McLaren are poised to make significant strides in mitigating health disparities in Michigan through innovative research, expert guidance and community-driven solutions.

The PAS-McLaren strategic collaboration will focus on:

• Expert-led thought leadership – convening experts from McLaren Health Care to advise, refine research study protocols and identify potential solutions based on the needs of McLaren and the communities and patients they serve.
• Outcomes-focused, innovative research with targeted interventions reflecting a commitment to address critical healthcare issues that directly impact the well-being of residents of Michigan and ensure that the insights can be prototyped and scaled across healthcare nationally.
• Community-driven solutions that place an emphasis on community engagement as a fundamental pillar of effective research. By actively involving local communities in the research process, the collaboration aims to ensure that solutions are not only informed by data, but also reflect the lived experiences and priorities of the people directly affected by health disparities.

“McLaren’s relationship with Premier began three years ago,” said Pamela Wills-Mertz, Director of Corporate Research Administration and HRPP, McLaren Health Care. “This new strategic collaboration will accelerate and amplify the positive impact we’re making to improve the health of the communities we serve – and together with Premier and the PAS team, we look forward to advancing health equity and care quality.”

About McLaren Health Care

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $6.6 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 13 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 490-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S. McLaren has 28,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Learn more at mclaren.org.

About Premier, Inc.

Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC) is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of more than 4,350 U.S. hospitals and health systems and approximately 300,000 other providers to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, consulting and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost. Premier plays a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, collaborating with members to co-develop long-term innovations that reinvent and improve the way care is delivered to patients nationwide. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier is passionate about transforming American healthcare. Please visit Premier’s news and investor sites on www.premierinc.com; as well as X, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and Premier’s blog for more information about the company.

About the PINC AI™ Platform

PINC AI^™ is the technology and services platform of Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC). With more than 20 years’ worth of cost, quality and operational data gleaned from 45 percent of U.S. hospital discharges, 2.7 billion hospital outpatient and clinic encounters and 177 million physician office visits, the PINC AI^™ platform provides actionable intelligence to help improve outcomes, support improved financial performance and enable success in new, alternative payment models. PINC AI^™ incorporates the 100 Top Hospitals ^® Program that inspires hospital and health system leaders to pursue higher performance and deliver added value to their patients and communities. PINC AI^™ offerings rely on advanced analytics to identify improvement opportunities; support award-winning Strategic Collaboratives for value-based care, maternal and infant health, workforce innovation, and health equity; and consulting services for clinical and operational design, and workflow solutions to hardwire sustainable change. The PINC AI^™ platform is also the data engine powering Premier’s newest brands – Remitra^® and Contigo Health^®. With a leading network of provider organizations, the PINC AI^™ platform accelerates ingenuity and serves as a large-scale innovation catalyst in healthcare. PINC AI^™ offerings and capabilities can be followed on X and LinkedIn.

Premier, Inc. Forward-Looking Statements

Statements made in this release that are not statements of historical or current facts, including but not limited to those related to Premier’s ability to advance its long-term strategies and develop innovations for, transform and improve healthcare, and the intended or expected performance or utility of Premier’s and PINC AI’s products and services, are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause performance or achievements to be materially different from historical results or from any future performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. More information on risk factors relating to Premier and its products and services is included from time to time in the “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements,” “Risk Factors,” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” sections of Premier’s periodic filings with the SEC, which are also made available on Premier’s website at investors.premierinc.com. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and Premier undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or future events that occur after that date, or otherwise.

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