Ascom, a global solutions provider focused on healthcare information and communications technology (ICT) and mobile workflows, today announced it has been awarded a national group purchasing agreement for Ascom’s clinical workflow solutions with Premier Inc. Effective May 1, 2024, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for Ascom’s clinical workflow solutions portfolio, which includes nurse call, mobile devices and software.
Ascom, a global solutions provider focused on healthcare information and communications technology (ICT) and mobile workflows, today announced it has been awarded a national group purchasing agreement for Ascom’s clinical workflow solutions with Premier Inc. Effective May 1, 2024, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for Ascom’s clinical workflow solutions portfolio, which includes nurse call, mobile devices and software.
“This agreement with Premier demonstrates the strong benefits our clinical workflow solutions bring to Premier’s members,” said Alex Veytsel, Head of National Accounts & Strategic Alliances, Ascom Americas. “Relationships with GPOs including Premier are important to our strategy of ensuring all acute care facilities, ambulatory care centers and long-term care institutions across the U.S. have access to Ascom technology.”
The Ascom Healthcare Platform (AHP) helps health systems solve some of their most pressing challenges including proactively monitoring, identifying and alerting for signs of patient deterioration and other situations, efficient and effective nurse rounding for patient care, enabling staff personal safety, assisting with clinical surveillance and patient capacity/throughput, communicating and collaborating across extended care teams and easily managing staffing and assignments. As a vendor-neutral enabling platform, it leverages the AHP portfolio, including Ascom Telligence nurse call, Unite alarm management and mobile clinical collaboration and communication software, Digistat medical device integration software and Myco smartphones. The Ascom platform is uniquely broad, enabling healthcare systems to devise truly integrated and customized end-to-end communication and workflow solutions.
Premier is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of
approximately 4,350 U.S. hospitals and 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.