July 13, 2023 – CaringWays is collaborating with Premier Inc.’s PINC AI™ Applied Sciences (PAS) and Premier’s Strategic Collaboratives teams to advance health equity.
The partnership will raise funds to support projects in the following focus areas:
- Supplement an advisory committee of stakeholders which will guide the strategic vision for the PINC AI™ Health Equity Collaborative.
- Leverage standardized and connected data analytics and a cross-functional stakeholder forum to identify priority patient populations.
- Host national and regional events to better understand health equity efforts underway and work to scale effective solutions across the nation.
- Design and conduct critical research projects to help test and pilot interventions focused on factors that contribute to health inequities including mental health, maternal and infant health, impact of cancer care, neurodegenerative conditions and social drivers of health (SDOH), which, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), are “the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship and age” that affect a wide range of health, functioning and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
As part of this partnership, PAS, Premier’s Strategic Collaboratives and CaringWays will work together to establish opportunities to award hospitals and health systems fully-funded memberships to the PINC AI™ Health Equity Collaborative.
Members of the PINC AI™ Health Equity Collaborative participate in knowledge sharing, learn from early adopters of health equity implementation strategies and devise unique health equity indices to help drive the elimination in health inequities in their communities. They will evaluate health equity efforts underway across differentiated health systems, leverage data that supports best practices and have the opportunity to provide input on public policies.
The funded opportunity will be made available to hospitals and health systems that submit documentation of ongoing health equity work, including a Health Equity Plan, Community Health Needs Assessment and/or a Community Health Improvement plan and indication of interest to collaborate in research. Health systems granted awards also commit to participate in Premier’s PINC AI™ Health Equity Collaborative to drive improvement in helping to eliminate inequities and engaging with other collaborative members.
Each participating organization:
- Receives a proprietary hospital or health-system Health Equity Assessment.
- Shares relevant anonymized and/or de-identified health equity data in order to benchmark improvement efforts.
- Engages in shared learning about initiatives that promote health equity.
- Accesses leading practices from nationally renowned subject matter experts.
- Explores innovations that will improve health equity and potentially advance federal policy.