(Premier Inc.: Charlotte, NC) --With the industry deadline for the adoption of health care data standards rapidly approaching, participants in a Premier health care alliance project are seeing benefits in preparing for implementation that lays the groundwork for improved patient safety and health care cost reduction.

According to health care provider and supplier participants in Premier’s Global Location Number (GLN) Transaction program, preparing to implement the GLN can and should start now and in short order with immediate cost and quality benefits, regardless of other implementation challenges that may exist. Detailed results from the first phase of the program are available in the report, “Global Location Number Implementation On Your Way to Better Supply Chain Interactions.”

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