Premier partners with Progknowse to develop precision medicine analytics
Premier, a healthcare improvement company, is partnering with Progknowse to develop a clinical and genomic data set for use within the PremierConnect performance improvement platform to develop new predictive analytics capabilities that support precision medicine and personalized care delivery.
Premier and Progknowse plan to work with leading research universities and data scientists to develop real-time predictive algorithms that can be used by individual health systems to support care interventions for patients with specific genetic markers.
Progknowse, a startup predictive analytics firm recently founded by former Inova Health System Chief Technology Officer, Marshall Ruffin, MD, will utilize the PremierConnect platform to access national data sets that include de-identified clinical outcomes data on approximately 45% of all patient discharges in the U.S. Progknowse will access this data within a secure development space, which can be leveraged by data scientists to create predictive algorithms that advance and personalize treatment based on specific genetic information.
In their work with researchers and data scientists from several major universities, Premier and Progknowse plan to create the first set of predictive algorithms on precise, actionable therapeutic recommendations for improving and personalizing care delivery.
Dr. Ruffin founded Progknowse with the vision of enabling precision medicine to improve healthcare outcomes.
The financial terms of the Progknowse partnership were not disclosed and is not expected to have any impact on Premier’s fiscal 2019 financial results.
