Insights

Interdepartmental collaboration is essential to ensuring appropriate infection prevention materials are available in the supply chain, and procedures and protocols must be continually evaluated to en... read more

Supply chain disruptions have intensified the appeals for more domestic manufacturing — and Vizient is heeding the call through creative collaborations... read more

While climate change is an undeniably complex problem, health systems can be part of the solution with some relatively simple design considerations that can help reduce the effects of a warming plane... read more

Vizient hosted the Dallas-area gathering of likeminded sustainability VPs and directors of Global 1000 companies who work to identify and address the complex issues around environmental and societal ... read more

Sustainability isn’t a ‘special project’ for healthcare supply chains. Instead, it’s part of a larger framework that maximizes the impact of health systems’ spending power and their larger role in be... read more

As complements to angiography, intravascular ultrasound and fractional flow reserve give physicians a far more complete picture of patients’ coronary conditions... read more

Healthcare is consistently among the top three industries targeted for a cyberattack, making the need to plan and prepare for these events increasingly critical... read more

3D printing has many relevant applications for healthcare, including onsite production of surgical devices, medical device development, and enhanced education for clinicians and patients. Even more f... read more

While suppliers are working to mitigate blood collection tube shortages through protective allocation strategies and focusing production on tubes with thehighest demand, those actions alone won’t imm... read more

Jane was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. She had already received two therapies and was on a treatment that appeared to have decreased the size of her cancer per her most recent scan. When Jan... read more

No care is delivered if physicians and health care providers lack the medicines, supplies, devices, and equipment needed to treat patients. It is at this intersection of clinical care and supply chai... read more

Vizient's EPP dashboard is arobust, one-of-its-kind tool that helps healthcare organizations identify sustainable products andevaluate the amount of their spend that contains products with harmful ch... read more