- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Using Social Drivers of Health to Reduce Admissions for Diabetes Patients, Among Others
By leveraging the patent-pending Vizient Vulnerability Index™, healthcare organizations focused on mission and margins can act upstream to directly address SDOH to help reduce preventable admissions in high-needs communities.
- 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.
- Supply Chain
- Clinical
Principles of Surgical Tray Management: How to Save Time, Effort and Money
As hospitals and health systems work to manage costs while maintaining care quality, surgical tray standardization remains an untapped opportunity for many organizations. But there are ways to streamline instruments and provide additional value.
- Supply Chain
Three Areas Supply Chain Consultants Should Focus on to Help Hospitals Face Challenges
Cost management, technology adoption and inventory management solutions should be at the center of how supply chain consultants approach their work with hospitals, along with how those areas align with an organization’s specific needs and challenges.
- Supply Chain
Is There a Robot in the Warehouse? There Should Be.
With the advent of robotics, once-static spaces have become dynamic, efficient hubs, transforming the way medical supplies are handled, stored and delivered, says Vizient’s Patrick Marier.
- 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.
- Supply Chain
Safety in Numbers: Strategies for PPE Inventory Management
How can health systems take a “Goldilocks” approach to PPE, ensuring they don’t have too much or too little – but rather, a “just right” amount that strikes a balance between financial and clinical requirements?
- 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.
- Supply Chain
Enabling Successful Working Relationships Between Clinical Value Analysis and Purchasing Operations
The value of investing in relationships and combining strengths cannot be overstated when it comes to balance and collaboration in the healthcare supply chain, says Vizient’s Sam Weech.
- 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.”
- Supply Chain
Four Reasons Healthcare Organizations Should Implement Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
As electric vehicle adoption continues to rise, hospitals can benefit from implementing EV charging infrastructure in many ways — financially, in their green initiatives, through data-driven insights, and in patient and employee satisfaction.
- 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.
- Supply Chain
Creatively Reduce Costs in Healthcare Construction Projects
By leveraging performance improvement Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs), healthcare organizations can optimize procurement and reduce project expenses in areas including materials, equipment and services.
- Supply Chain
Three Ways Sustainability Can Drive Immediate Cost Savings Across Health Systems
Strategies such as using clean, renewable energy, increasing reprocessing and recycling in the OR, and pursuing environmentally preferred purchasing can drive near-term savings across healthcare organizations, says Vizient’s Cristina Indiveri.
- 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.