- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Letting Go of Past Prized Practices: Making Meaningful Change in Healthcare
To address the struggles in healthcare, healthcare organizations must be willing to shift their mindset, challenge the status quo of old practices and embrace meaningful change.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Courageous Conversations: Fostering Meaningful Dialogue About Quality End-of-Life Care
Vizient’s Nicole Spatafora, assistant vice president, performance improvement programs, offers key takeaways for healthcare organizations when conversing with patients about palliative care.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
The Power of Strategic Healthcare Partnerships
In today's healthcare landscape, tight margins, disruptors and new digital tools require organizations to take a new approach. Vizient CEO Byron Jobe shares how successful health systems leverage strategic partnerships to solve their biggest challenges.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Promoting Chief Nurse Executives’ Self-care Improves Overall Staff Wellbeing
Healthcare organizations can create larger workforce impacts by ensuring wellness starts at the top with proactive management of psychological hazards and job remodeling to encourage chief nurse executives to “put on their oxygen mask first.”
- Clinical
Understanding Options for Breast Reconstruction
More than 100,000 women undergo breast reconstruction surgery each year. It’s a deeply personal decision, and one that requires an understanding of the various options and what’s involved in each.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Facing the Game Changers: A New Era of Healthcare Access
With retail powerhouses, tech titans, venture capitalists and insurance providers reshaping the healthcare terrain, it’s more important than ever for healthcare organizations to realize their patients as customers to compete in the marketplace.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Clinical
Optimizing Healthcare Network Referrals Through “Blended Family” Approach
Amid growing mergers and acquisitions, healthcare systems can build stronger relationships with new specialists by using key strategies to become a more unified organization, keep referrals in network and drive overall revenue.
- Clinical
New Data Point to Early Intervention for Atrial Fibrillation Patients
New data shows ablation — a procedure done to restore a normal heart rhythm — may be an effective strategy in young adults with AFib
- Supply Chain
- Clinical
Steps to Improve Supply Utilization With Clinicians
By taking actions that are within your control, you can help your hospital with supply costs, waste reduction, and bolstering human and environmental health.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Lost Too Soon: Learning How to Help Those with Dementia or Other Brain Illness
Living with loved ones who have dementia, Alzheimer’s disease or other brain illness can be a scary time. In honor of National Alzheimer and Brain Awareness Month, Marilyn Sherrill shares her personal experiences to offer hope.
- Supply Chain
- Clinical
Future Hospital or Hospital of the Future? Incorporating Inclusion and Diversity for Greater Health Equity
Whether incorporating non-Western modalities or championing equitable access to facilities and treatments, the future of healthcare isn’t about retrofitting hospitals — it’s about reimagining their capabilities.
- Clinical
- Supply Chain
- Operations & Quality
Care at Home Programs Bolster Everything from Cost Savings to Health Equity to Supplier Innovation — All While Boosting Patient Satisfaction
Health systems must consider increased investment in care-at-home initiatives to safely speed discharge out of the hospital setting and to limit avoidable admissions.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Eight Key Elements for Successful Nurse Residency Programs
Dana Garcher offers leading tactics for implementing nursing transition to practice programs, the most effective engagement and retention tools for healthcare’s newest nurses.