Premier is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting approximately 4,000 U.S. hospitals and health systems and approximately 165,000 other providers and organizations to transform healthcare. As your leading research and analytics partner, Premier supports providers, manufacturers and academia through solutions in data, inquiry and intervention. The HIPAA-compliant Premier Healthcare Database contains unmatched clinical, financial and operational insight from more than 1,000 hospitals & health systems, over 900 million patient encounters and more than 215 million unique patients.