Insights

With hundreds of competing priorities, hospital executive teams must focus on something they that they know they can spend time on and get real results from. An intense focus on improving length of s... read more

Sustainable procurement in clinical labs remains in its infancy — but we can, and should, harness the potential of environmental stewardship to evolve current laboratory practices. Vizient’s Mellissa... read more

The employed physician model is coming under stress at many health systems. Given the growing financial pressures that health systems face, they must rethink how they are deploying scarce financial r... read more

While the urgency for healthcare organizations to remodel their ambulatory care business has never been more critical, two pivotal strategies — process standardization and patient-centric care — can ... read more

The most important mission in healthcare is ensuring the best possible outcomes for your community — and keeping high performance top of mind can help you meet that critical goal, says Vizient Chief ... read more

Ligature risk mitigation requires collaboration among stakeholders and adherence to best practices, including comprehensive risk assessments, implementing design solutions, staff training, and ongoin... read more

Vizient’s Tawnya Bosko outlines five strategies for how healthcare providers can use claims, clinical data and benchmarking services to maximize their potential with payers by navigating blind spots ... read more

To ensure patient safety, water quality is key. And there are four main strategies that can help achieve that goal: regular water quality testing, water treatment and technologies, equipment maintena... read more

The Vizient/American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Nurse Residency Program™ (NRP) — a first-of-its-kind initiative launched in 2002... read more

To remain relevant in all aspects of healthcare financing and delivery, leaders should evaluate their value-based care strategies to consider key trends and market conditions... read more

To successfully reduce length of stay, health system management will need to combine performance improvement efforts with efforts to successfully align themselves more closely with skilled nursing pr... read more

With a deep understanding of the communities they serve, community health workers are significant resources for healthcare organizations to improve patients’ health literacy and address their clinica... read more