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Financial sustainability
Is Your Health System Ready for Direct-to-Employer Contracting? Four Keys to Success

Agrowing number of self-insured employers are bypassing traditional benefit networks offered by insurers and instead contracting directly with health systems to deliver health care services to their ... read more

Pharmacy
New Changes in Cardiology Could Affect Your Clinical Operations and Spend – Here’s How

There have been many pharmaceutical changes in the cardiology service line in the past year – here’s what they are and why. read more

Pharmacy
Biosimilars are The Same, Yet Different, and That May Impact Utilization

Come Jan. 31, Humira (adalimumab) will lose its exclusivity, opening the door for the eight approved adalimumab biosimilars to come to market by the end of 2023, which makes now a great time to discu... read more

Financial sustainability
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, read more

Quality & clinical operations
Q&A with Laurie Dowd: Moving beyond cost-cutting strategies to improve financial growth — and patient experience

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

Data & analytics
Positioning short-term assets in the current rate environment

Because it’s been so long since we’ve experienced a rate environment that provides for noticeable earnings, the art of generating excess earnings from cash assets may have gone dormant in the minds o... read more

Quality & clinical operations
At the midway point, stronger financial performance continues

Revenue and expense trends and length of stay will be indicators for the months ahead, but for now, good planning and tough decisions are translating into better results. read more

Financial sustainability
Pharmacy
Don’t 340B wasteful: Save costs by sussing out suboptimal purchasing processes

For many healthcare systems, the 340B Drug Pricing Program can be a saver ... and a stressor. That’s why systems like Intermountain Health have devoted centralized resources to helping their more tha... read more

Supply chain
Q&A with Simrit Sandhu: Tighter margins call for an elevated spend management approach

The president of Vizient spend management shares how innovative healthcare leaders are tackling the rapidly changing demands of the healthcare industry using a holistic spend management approach. read more

Financial sustainability
Workforce & culture
Quality & clinical operations
Supply chain
Healthcare leaders identify financial sustainability as their biggest challenge

In a recent HealthLeaders Council survey created for Vizient, 101 respondents with roles including healthcare presidents and CEOs and clinical, operational, financial, IT and marketing leadership det... read more