Insights

ED acuity rising; focus on emergent visits, resource use, and care models. Enhance coordination, address behavioral health, and adapt to payer mix shifts... read more

Virtual visits to rise more than 25% of EM by 2033. Hybrid models needed key for growth... read more

From adopting technology and growing service lines to building a better customer experience and increasing provider network integrity, healthcare leaders must not just gain but keep patients as part ... read more

In today's competitive healthcare landscape, exceptional customer experience is not a nice-to-have, but a crucial differentiator. In his latest blog, Vizient President and CEO Byron Jobe outlines fou... read more

Evolving industry dynamics will prompt further consolidation among not-for-profit life plan communities, especially as organizations look to add scale to their platforms. This activity will have stra... read more

Hospitals face enormously complex operational challenges every day. The advanced analytics used by large commercial businesses can offer solutions that improve revenue, lower expenses, and enhance pa... read more

Health systems are faced with two conflicting realities. The first is that partnerships will continue to be a necessary and critical part of healthcare strategy. The second is that antitrust enforcem... read more

After several years of grappling with one existential challenge after another, many organizations may find the task of resetting their strategy overwhelming. In our experience, most health systems ha... read more

For Medicaid plans that enjoyed a surge in business during the pandemic, this rapid decline in the market may be disheartening, and the large rapid shifts in the Medicaid risk pools will be challengi... read more

Walmart’s failure as a healthcare provider points to some big problems in U.S. healthcare, including a difficult business model, an unfriendly reimbursement model, and a basic healthcare expense-to-r... read more

The decision to partner with another health system is always a high-stakes decision for a board. The creation of a community foundation is one way to ensure that a health system’s focus on its commun... read more

Vizient experts assess the disruptors coming and going in patient care — and what healthcare organizations can glean... read more