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Nurse managers sit at the center of workforce stability, care quality and financial performance. As burnout and turnover threaten health systems, supporting nurse managers has become a critical executive strategy for sustaining performance and growth.

With ED volumes surging and inpatient bottlenecks worsening, hospitals must adopt bold, data-driven strategies to streamline care, expand access, and safeguard both patient health and financial sustainability.

As a follow-up to Dr. Badlani's previous Q&A, we take a deeper look at how quality, experience and strategy have converged as defining forces in healthcare. We explore what sustainable growth, data-driven decision-making and disciplined innovation look like in practice and how leaders can translate these ideas into a durable advantage.

Your digital front door strategy may see a big shift soon, and AI is at the root of it. I’ve already started to see the signs of it during executive conversations — less talk about portals or wayfinding, and more discussion about the consequential questions forming upstream: • Where do patients go first to make sense of their needs? • Who helps them decide what to do next? • What happens if those decision points increasingly sit outside the health system?

With passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare gained authority to negotiate maximum fair prices for select high-spend, single-source drugs in Parts B and D. This analysis evaluates how wholesale acquisition cost for top-spend drugs has shifted using pre/post observation windows for each program.

As health systems face intensifying financial pressure, shifting care patterns, workforce shortages and the encroachment of nontraditional competitors, the role of service lines is undergoing a profound shift. No longer merely engines of volume growth or operational standardization, service lines are increasingly expected to shape enterprise strategy, drive systemness and serve as connective tissue across clinical, operational and market-facing priorities.

For hospitals and health systems, the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) represents both a stress test and an inflection point: a convergence of policy overhaul, payer realignment, workforce turbulence and healthcare access that will reshape operating models for years to come.

Guidance on which models can be helpful when implementing a healthcare technology management program. 3 models are reviewed: Self-operated, hybrid and fully-outsourced.

When a healthcare organization’s workplace culture is toxic—when people don’t feel psychologically safe enough to speak up, to share ideas or to challenge the status quo—patient safety is at risk.

According to recent Vizient client input, the geographic footprint matters, as does robust digital health capabilities, with a critical need for increased data integration and deeper insights into specialty care.

This year’s Vizient Health Care Executive Forum included equal parts uncertainty and optimism. But every strategy presented was supported by the unshakeable mission to ensure the best care for every patient.

It’s been two decades since Vizient launched its Quality & Accountability Study, which empowers hospitals to improve patient outcomes and achieve lasting performance.

Preference card management is one way health systems can drive operational efficiency and improve financial sustainability. Here's how to start.

Nurse managers sit at the center of workforce stability, care quality and financial performance. As burnout and turnover threaten health systems, supporting nurse managers has become a critical executive strategy for sustaining performance and growth.

With ED volumes surging and inpatient bottlenecks worsening, hospitals must adopt bold, data-driven strategies to streamline care, expand access, and safeguard both patient health and financial sustainability.

Your digital front door strategy may see a big shift soon, and AI is at the root of it. I’ve already started to see the signs of it during executive conversations — less talk about portals or wayfinding, and more discussion about the consequential questions forming upstream: • Where do patients go first to make sense of their needs? • Who helps them decide what to do next? • What happens if those decision points increasingly sit outside the health system?

With passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare gained authority to negotiate maximum fair prices for select high-spend, single-source drugs in Parts B and D. This analysis evaluates how wholesale acquisition cost for top-spend drugs has shifted using pre/post observation windows for each program.

As health systems face intensifying financial pressure, shifting care patterns, workforce shortages and the encroachment of nontraditional competitors, the role of service lines is undergoing a profound shift. No longer merely engines of volume growth or operational standardization, service lines are increasingly expected to shape enterprise strategy, drive systemness and serve as connective tissue across clinical, operational and market-facing priorities.

Guidance on which models can be helpful when implementing a healthcare technology management program. 3 models are reviewed: Self-operated, hybrid and fully-outsourced.

For hospitals and health systems, the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) represents both a stress test and an inflection point: a convergence of policy overhaul, payer realignment, workforce turbulence and healthcare access that will reshape operating models for years to come.

Healthcare organizations have never had more data. Dashboards track utilization in near real time. Performance metrics cascade from enterprise goals to individual departments. Predictive models flag risk and variation with increasing precision. And yet, many strategy conversations still begin by looking backward. Analytics are essential—but analytics alone cannot answer the most important strategic question facing healthcare leaders today: Where is demand headed, and what do we do about it?

This year’s Vizient Health Care Executive Forum included equal parts uncertainty and optimism. But every strategy presented was supported by the unshakeable mission to ensure the best care for every patient.

It’s been two decades since Vizient launched its Quality & Accountability Study, which empowers hospitals to improve patient outcomes and achieve lasting performance.

According to recent Vizient client input, the geographic footprint matters, as does robust digital health capabilities, with a critical need for increased data integration and deeper insights into specialty care.

As a follow-up to Dr. Badlani's previous Q&A, we take a deeper look at how quality, experience and strategy have converged as defining forces in healthcare. We explore what sustainable growth, data-driven decision-making and disciplined innovation look like in practice and how leaders can translate these ideas into a durable advantage.

As AI adoption accelerates, leaders must strengthen oversight, accuracy and maturity to ensure safe, scalable and sustainable results.