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Shifting Healthcare Mindset from “Patient” to “Customer”
To ensure healthcare organizations remain competitive and financially viable, they must begin thinking differently about their growth strategy — grounded in earning customer loyalty.
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Vizient Vulnerability Index™ is a Uniquely Big-Picture Look at Patient Outcomes and the Social Needs That Impact Them
Calculating the increasingly complex equation of ensuring everyone can attain their highest level of health requires an index with robust data integration that allows health inequities to be examined from every angle, says Vizient’s Beth Godsey.
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Leveraging Network Integrity to Achieve Customer Loyalty
When looking for the best customer loyalty strategy for healthcare organizations, using physician outreach teams and network optimization tools can bring the most success in improving patient leakage and the bottom line.
- Supply Chain
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The Top 8 Must-Haves for More Effective Analytical Reporting Within Category Management
Though analytical reporting is becoming more automated over time, Excel reporting is nowhere near its sunset. With that in mind, here is a list of necessities to provide clear, concise and consistent results to support effective decision making.
- Data & Analytics
Optimizing Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to Improve Clinician Efficiency, Business Decision-making
Ashleigh Kervel outlines six ways healthcare leadership can leverage electronic health records (EHRs) to improve clinical practice and business decisions.
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Windstorms, Flash Floods, and Forest Fires: A Hard Look at Healthcare Pricing
Vizient Research Institute executive director Tom Robertson suggests that the way we pay for healthcare – in particular, the cross-subsidization of public sector patients by private sector pricing – is a significant contributor to health disparities.
- Data & Analytics
Lessons From a Lighthouse: Caring for the Caretakers
When serious chronic illness requires extended episodes of care, there are opportunities for hospitals and health systems to alleviate that strain on patients and their loved ones.
- Data & Analytics
Turning Ambition into Action: Achieving Health Equity Starts with Better Measurement
A successful health equity strategy starts with better measurement and effective communication.
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Practice and Proficiency: From the Airport to the Operating Room
A reflection on one aspect of the Vizient Research Institute’s 2021 study, the prevalence of high-risk surgical procedures occurring in low-volume settings and its juxtaposition with the views of physicians, health system executives and patients.
- Data & Analytics
Maslow’s Hammer and Health Care Prices
Has our trust in the market to govern the distribution of health care services and to establish rational, sustainable prices may have been misplaced or might the market be the wrong tool for the job?
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The War of Our Lifetime
The COVID-19 pandemic will likely have a lifelong emotional impact on the generations who live through it. This blog post is tribute to health care workers and a rallying cry for what lies ahead.
- Data & Analytics
Miles to Go Before I Sleep: Robert Frost and the Common Good
The percentage of Americans aged 65 or older will surpass 80 million by 2040 and will hit 94.7 million by 2060, brining brings with it an enormous burden of chronic illness, shouldered by a group of people who are increasingly disabled, socially isolated a...
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Health Care Spending and the Winds of November
Using homeownership as an analogy, we'll explore how thetraditional role of health insurance has been replaced by an expectation that each beneficiary will take out at least as much as they pay into the system, a fundamentally unsustainable economic model.
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A Fire Hydrant, a Chain-Link Fence and the Health Care Labor Shortage
Health care has not been spared from a nationwide labor shortage. This blog explores how the traditional payment system can complicate an already challenging situation and the implications for patient care and ongoing efforts to address the issue of health...
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The Future of Health Care: COVID’s Impact and the Change That Comes with It
For most of 2020, COVID-19 disrupted and significantly altered the infrastructure of the world’s industries, including health care delivery and services. But at what level can we expect health care to return to pre-pandemic levels? What are the long-term e...
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Spinning Wheels, Flashing Lights and Health Care Pricing
Health care pricing—in particular, the variability in what different payers pay providers for the same services—can seem to takeon elements of classic TV game showsas the amount the provider gets paid has less to do with the cost of care and is more depend...
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EHRs, Air Traffic Control and Unmet Expectations
Imagine you’re on a commercial jet headed from Beijing to Paris and you’re descending over the Netherlands through heavy cloud cover with limited visibility. Your pilot contacts air traffic control in Amsterdam for instructions, speaking Mandarin Chinese. ...
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Medicine, Mortgages and the Middle Class
In his latest blog posting entitled “Medicine, Mortgages and the Middle Class”, Vizient Research Institute executive director Tom Robertson takes a new look at an old economic concept that will change the way we think about health care spending.
- Data & Analytics
CMS Updates its Star Ratings: A Simpler Methodological Approach Provides Clarity Needed to Drive Change
Whether you are a hospital administrator, a physician, a nurse, or other member of your hospital’s family,you know well the true north of our daily purpose is to provide quality health care to patients. And the compass that helps us navigate that course is...
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Driver’s Ed and Molecular Biology
In his latest blog posting entitled Driver’s Ed and Molecular Biology, Vizient Research Institute executive director Tom Robertson reflects on a sense of gratitude and optimism over receiving the COVID vaccine.
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Seeing Sideways While Moving Forward
It’s natural to focus on the horizon as clinical volumes return to something approaching normal. Read why we need to keep our eyes moving to find those patients who should be returning but aren’t...not only including—but especially—when they can’t afford t...
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Health Care Over the Rainbow
"The global pandemic of 2020 figuratively swept through the health care landscape like a Kansas cyclone...in what felt like an instant, everything was up in the air.” In his latest blog posting entitled Health Care Over the Rainbow, Vizient Research Instit...
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Defying Gravity: What if Not Everything Returns to Normal?
In his latest blog post entitled “Defying Gravity: What if Not Everything Returns to Normal?”, Vizient Research Institute Executive Director Tom Robertson provides a glimpse into the Institute’s most recent economic study. Launched at the outset of the glo...
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The Power of an Enterprise-wide, Data-driven Strategy
Health systems and providers continue to face ongoing challenges associated with delivering high-quality, cost-effective care while balancing decreasing reimbursements and new value-based payment models. COVID-19 has heightened the need for organizations t...