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Supply chain and cost management
Does a Maternal RSV Vaccine Make Sense? It May Be Too Early to Tell.

Stacy Lauderdale, Vizient AVP, and John Shoen, senior clinical manager, discuss two potential approaches to preventing RSV in pediatrics expected to receive FDA decisions this year... read more

Strategy, partnerships and innovation
The Hospital Makeover—Part 2

The physician employment model is clearly broken and in need of a near-term fix. The critical question for health system leaders is how to reconsider physician employment within the hospital operatin... read more

Supply chain and cost management
Using Contracting and Clinical Data Collaboratively to Gain Clinical and Executive Support

The key to effectively using supply spend, contract and clinical data is to correctly identify the need and expected result, as well as knowing the available data sources and tools to ensure the desi... read more

Workforce management and culture
Clinical operations and quality
Health Systems Can’t Afford to Neglect New Nurses

Workforce shortages and increased workloads have led to burnout and high turnover among healthcare staff, especially nurses. As Vizient CEO Byron Jobe writes, nurse retention programs are a proven wa... read more

Financial sustainability
Your Technology Strategy is a C-suite Imperative

Health systems need a dual transformation — and the role of technology has never been more important in solving the problems of today and tomorrow... read more

Data, analytics and AI
Making Care Primary Model Overview

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announces multi-state initiative to support primary care practices with varying levels of value-based care experience... read more

Financial sustainability
From Incremental to Multivariable Management

The challenges facing health system leaders today are so diverse, interconnected, and relentless that an incremental management approach won’t work. The best response is grounded in simultaneous and ... read more

Financial sustainability
America’s Hospitals Need a Makeover

In an environment unlike anything any of us have experienced, regaining financial equilibrium will require a comprehensive view of our organizations and environment as well as an openness to an outco... read more

Strategy, partnerships and innovation
Optimizing healthcare network referrals through “blended family” approach

Amid growing mergers and acquisitions, healthcare systems can build stronger relationships with new specialists by using key strategies to become a more unified organization, keep referrals in networ... read more

Clinical operations and quality
New Data Point to Early Intervention for Atrial Fibrillation Patients

New data shows ablation — a procedure done to restore a normal heart rhythm — may be an effective strategy in young adults with AFib... read more