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More Thoughts About Artificial Intelligence
March 26, 2024

As interest around artificial intelligence’s potential builds, healthcare management teams must start grappling with questions on how this rapidly evolving technology might drive future organizationa... read more

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A Different Way of Thinking About Hospital Closures
May 15, 2024

The many forces driving some hospitals to financial distress make it impossible to maintain the status quo. Leaders can move beyond a binary close-or-don’t-close decision to reconsider what it means ... read more

Strategy, partnerships and innovation
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Vizient’s new pharmacy Site of Care Database helps providers formulate alternate site of care strategy
June 8, 2023

With the increasing shift of treatment from inpatient to outpatient settings, come questions about which medications can safely be used at alternate sites of care facilities. The new Vizient Pharmacy... read more

Data, analytics and AI
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Vizient, AACN Celebrates 20 Years of Nurse Residency Program Success Transition to practice program supports more than 224,000 new nurses
June 24, 2024

The Vizient/AACN Nurse Residency Program is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Learn about the impact the program has made on nurses and the nursing profession and check out the interactive timeline t... read more

Workforce management and culture
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Daily Dispatch, Day 4: That’s a wrap! Summit concludes on a reflective — and hopeful — note.
September 19, 2024

Daily Dispatch, Day 4: That’s a wrap! Summit concludes on a reflective — and hopeful — note... read more

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Putting Ambulatory Surgery Centers at the Center of Outpatient Strategy
July 21, 2022

As health systems look to the future, surgical volume will continue shifting from HOPDs to ASCs. Health systems must be innovative and flexible to ensure that they participate in that growth with phy... read more

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The Physician Employment Model, Continued
July 14, 2023

Hospital executives have given the physician employment strategy considerable thought. Here are four observations from healthcare leaders who are rethinking the physician employment model... read more

Clinical operations and quality
Strategy, partnerships and innovation
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Healthcare’s Wicked Problems
April 26, 2023

Lately, every CEO I talk with tells me how hard it is to run a healthcare organization in 2023. These are people with long experience, people who over time have pushed the right buttons and pulled th... read more

Strategy, partnerships and innovation
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Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: Management of Labor in Trying Financial Circumstances
July 28, 2023

C-suites across America are moving to stronger measures to assure the financial survivability and competitiveness of their organizations. Data and analysis suggest that reductions in force are among ... read more

Financial sustainability
Strategy, partnerships and innovation
Workforce management and culture
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Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: Hospital Strategy and Planning in Times of Financial Challenge
August 7, 2023

During times of financial challenge, hospitals tend to aggressively cut back on both planning and the execution of overall strategy. But is this the right road for hospitals to take at this time?... read more

Strategy, partnerships and innovation
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Listening and Learning
October 4, 2023

Before you can establish the organizational thought platform that best guides your hospital forward, you will need a leadership team that is committed to creating a “listening and learning” healthcar... read more

Strategy, partnerships and innovation
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Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” But Probably Not Right Now
August 30, 2023

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 figh... read more

Strategy, partnerships and innovation