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The finding is reported in the Vizient Winter 2022 Pharmacy Market Outlook, which forecasts an overall 3.09% increase in drug prices for July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.

It’s a new year and a great time to make sure that your hospital’s or health system’s laboratory courier system—the lifeblood of your laboratory outreach program and critical for operational and financial success—is fine-tuned for 2022. Here's five good practices for the new year.

As hospitals grapple with how virtual and digital health will change the health care landscape, it’s hard to ignore its continued influence and disruption since the COVID-19 pandemic began nearly two years ago. Care models were operationalized in virtual environments at an exponential pace, and this dramatic shift has forced a reimagination of how to better meet patients’ needs. Vizient and its subsidiary Sg2 explored the rate of adoption nationwide, and how virtual and digital health was stood-up or expanded in response to COVID.

Amid all the uncertainties facing the health care industry today, one thing is clear. We need to continue to improve the health of our communities and do so in a way that supports, honors and leverages diversity. One of the most impactful actions hospitals can take is to reimagine their sourcing—from accounting and IT services, to landscaping and laundry, to biomedical services and surgical products—creating a broader, more equitable network of diverse suppliers. The benefits are far reaching, creating local jobs that strengthen the local economy and in turn, improving health outcomes and equity.