February 15, 2023 – University Hospitals (UH) in Northeast Ohio, one of the nation’s leading healthcare systems comprised of expert and renowned surgeons, doctors and clinicians, is collaborating with Premier Inc.’s PINC AI™ Applied Sciences (PAS) to advance clinical research, real-world evidence generation and explore the development of new solutions, interventions and other novel healthcare initiatives.
UH and PAS will work together in four distinct areas:
- Jointly leverage real-world data, clinical input and other research to evaluate novel, new therapies and interventions for commercial development.
- Conduct prospective research on specific care pathways and other interventions using real-world data and evidence (RWD/RWE).
- Improve the quality and speed of clinical trials, research and product development using artificial intelligence (AI) to help identify diverse trial participants more rapidly.
- Utilize natural language processing (NLP) to uncover the unstructured information contained within clinician notes, pathology reports and genomics results for early disease identification and intervention.
This research partnership will leverage standardized and connected data, including the PINC AI™ Healthcare Database which represents more than 1 billion individual inpatient and outpatient encounters from over 1,000 geographically diverse sites. These data assets will help initiate prospective research and clinical trial opportunities that are informed by comprehensive insights and encompass the full patient journey and SKU-level purchase data that helps researchers and providers understand product costs, inventory and utilization at the zip code, state and national levels.
Specifically, UH and PAS plan to focus on a variety of clinical areas including value-based projects related to equity and disparities, quality and value improvement in primary and specialty care, and research around chronic diseases such as oncology, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.