- Clinical
Building a Successful Strategy to Embrace Advanced Practice Providers
To celebrate National Advanced Practice Providers Week (APPs), Vizient AVP of Clinical Team Insights Christen Hunt outlines the steps necessary to build a successful APP workforce strategy.
- Clinical
Beyond the Buzz: A Roadmap to Responsible AI Implementation in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare, and it's crucial that we navigate this transformation responsibly. Vizient CEO Byron Jobe discusses how healthcare organizations can take steps to adopt these solutions effectively and ethically.
- Supply Chain
Are Radiology Detector Grids on the Brink of Obsolescence?
The healthcare community’s attention to radiation exposure has fueled the advent of newer technologies like digital detectors that offer the promise of reduced radiation exposure while maintaining diagnostic efficacy.
- Supply Chain
Balancing People, Technology for the Best Inventory Management Outcome
When we walk into a hospital, it's always interesting to see how inventory is managed in different departments.
- Operations & Quality
Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” But Probably Not Right Now
Hospital leadership faces an undeniably hard challenge: regaining financial stability, finding a relevant post-Covid competitive vision, and energizing teams with a renewed sense of purpose. But fighting back is the hospital job of the moment.
- Supply Chain
- Data & Analytics
How Big Data Illuminates Social Drivers, Environmental Impacts and Patient Health
There is often a disconnect that exists between sustainability and health equity. Pinpointing the immense overlap between environmental impacts and social drivers of health is no easy feat, but data is key to helping providers see the bigger picture.
- Data & Analytics
Strategically Listening through Human-Centered Metrics and Insights
To ensure healthcare organizations remain competitive and financially viable, they must begin thinking differently about their growth strategy by focusing on human-centered metrics to fully understand customers’ and employees’ unique needs and perceptions.
- Clinical
- Data & Analytics
- Operations & Quality
Looking Ahead at Workforce Needs to Care for the Patient of the Future
Caring for the patient of the future requires building a workforce with the right mix of skills, roles and functions to tackle the growing list of drivers upending healthcare. These include an increasingly older and more diverse population, navigating the ...
- Operations & Quality
Back to “Rule”: Key Inpatient Prospective Payment System Policies Affecting Hospitals
As healthcare providers prepare for FY 2024, Vizient’s Emily Jones and Jenna Stern outline what hospitals need to know about the FY 2024 IPPS final rule changes.
- Pharmacy
- Supply Chain
The Source of Truth: A Pharmacy Buyer’s Drug Shortage List
Drug shortages and their management have become a major focus of pharmacy staff within hospitals and health systems, which is why maintaining an institution-specific drug shortage list may be critical.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Benefits of Launching Direct-to-Employer Services to Your Health System Employees
Advantages to testing Direct-to-Employer offerings internally provide healthcare organizations valuable, transferable insights on process, structures, implementation and scalability that will build toward external success.
- Supply Chain
Shore Up Imaging Revenue During an Economic Downturn
Instead of reducing staffing levels if demand declines, forward-thinking health systems can maintain or increase volume through imaging associated with clinical research trials and firming up their referral base.
- Clinical
- Supply Chain
Ergonomics Should be of Paramount Importance to Gastroenterologists
While gastroenterologists are saving lives with vital endoscopy procedures, they need to be mindful of their own health and well-being, as poor body mechanics and improper ergonomics are negatively impacting their health, productivity and career longevity.
- Supply Chain
As Healthcare Continues to Evolve, Understanding the Cycle of Change is Crucial
The hospital supply chain and its leadership are in a state of volatile flux, meaning providers and their staff must adapt to meet new challenges and adjust to this new normal.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Struggles with Direct-to-Employer Engagement and What Health Systems Can Learn from the Pockets of Success
While some health systems have struggled to fully adopt direct-to-employer opportunities, Joe Maher shares insights from those who are finding success.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Sustainability is Key to Healthcare Performance Improvement
Through recent longitudinal insights on mortality, readmission and length of stay, Vizient’s Performance Improvement Program team shares successful strategies and lessons learned to help healthcare organizations achieve lasting improvements.
- Supply Chain
Take These Steps to Reduce Inventory Shrinkage in Your Hospital
From implementing strict inventory management procedures to establishing a culture of ownership, there are several quick-win approaches hospitals can take to ensure accurate inventory levels.
- Supply Chain
- Clinical
Safe Patient Handling Programs Reduce Risk, Increase Satisfaction
By reducing the risk of injury to healthcare workers, these programs can improve job satisfaction, decrease turnover and reduce healthcare costs associated with workers' compensation claims as well as improve patient outcomes.
- Operations & Quality
- Clinical
Helping Mothers Navigate Postpartum Depression: Interventions for Healthcare Organizations
In support of the health and wellbeing of mothers, Christina Driskill with Vizient’s Patient Safety Organization offers interventions that organizations can implement to create a healthy environment and support postpartum moms.
- Pharmacy
- Clinical
Does a Maternal RSV Vaccine Make Sense? It May Be Too Early to Tell.
Stacy Lauderdale, Vizient AVP, and John Shoen, senior clinical manager, discuss two potential approaches to preventing RSV in pediatrics expected to receive FDA decisions this year.
- Data & Analytics
- Supply Chain
- Clinical
Using Contracting and Clinical Data Collaboratively to Gain Clinical and Executive Support
The key to effectively using supply spend, contract and clinical data is to correctly identify the need and expected result, as well as knowing the available data sources and tools to ensure the desired outcome can be achieved.
- Operations & Quality
Health Systems Can’t Afford to Neglect New Nurses
Workforce shortages and increased workloads have led to burnout and high turnover among healthcare staff, especially nurses. As Vizient CEO Byron Jobe writes, nurse retention programs are a proven way for providers to improve turnover rates and reduce cost...
- Supply Chain
Your Technology Strategy is a C-suite Imperative
Health systems need a dual transformation — and the role of technology has never been more important in solving the problems of today and tomorrow.
- Operations & Quality
Making Care Primary Model Overview
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announces multi-state initiative to support primary care practices with varying levels of value-based care experience.