October 6, 2025- For decades, healthcare providers have measured quality largely within the walls of the hospital. But as the industry continues to shift toward value-based care, one reality is becoming clear: the need to drive quality doesn’t stop at discharge. Patients with chronic conditions move between inpatient, outpatient and community settings, often carrying overlapping risks that lead to readmissions, complications and even preventable deaths. And too often, leaders have had to rely on retrospective, claims-based reports or siloed electronic health record (EHR) registries that don’t tell the full story. That’s the gap Premier’s new Quality Continuum solution is designed to close.
Built as an extension of Premier’s Quality Enterprise, Quality Continuum goes further than traditional dashboards by combining acute and ambulatory EHR data, national benchmarks and social determinants of health (SDOH) into one place. This comprehensive view enables health systems to actively measure outcomes and potentially improve them.
One key condition in focus is diabetes, which effects nearly one-third of hospitalized patients in the U.S. The dashboard highlights measures such as HbA1c and blood pressure control, comorbidities like kidney disease and cardiovascular conditions and whether patients are receiving timely follow up care after discharge.