Our industry reality 

As the health care industry undergoes unprecedented transformation, health care administrators, physicians and other clinical and operational leaders must help shape a sustainable health care system that is capable of providing high quality, accessible and affordable care.

The Vizient Research Institute advances critical thinking and provides strategic thought leadership through rigorous quantitative research investigations with a focus on broad health care economic trends affecting the affordability and sustainability of our health care delivery system.

Our research

Made available exclusively to Vizient Member Network participants are the annual economic research study findings and topical research papers. Monthly blogs and podcast episodes are
publicly available.

Podcast series

Crosswinds podcast

Crosswinds is a series of casual conversations with national thought leaders hosted by Tom Robertson, executive director of the Vizient Research Institute. New episodes released every month feature the brightest people in health care considering questions that others haven’t thought to ask – always remarkable, never exactly what you’d expect, and having fun along the way.

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Defying gravity: What if not everything returns to normal?

Explores changes that may occur resulting from the pandemic, some short-term, others longitudinal, and challenges providers to not allow everything to come to rest just as they were before the pandemic.

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Seeing sideways while moving forward

Considers the plight of chronic and complex patients whose financial circumstances changed for the worse during the economic shutdown associated with the global pandemic.

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"The Vizient Research Institute has a long tradition of providing strategic thought leadership. By challenging intuition and posing questions that cause members to think differently, we help them affect change within their own organizations while inspiring them to revolutionize the U.S. health delivery system."

Tom Robertson
Executive Director, Vizient Research Institute

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Controlling health care costs in the US: A fresh look at price transparency

One of our recent health care economic research studies set out to test the impact of price transparency on reducing health care spending. Following a national survey of commercially insured consumers, in-depth interviews and focus groups, the study concluded that price transparency in health care will fall considerably short of the impacts hoped for by payers and policy makers.

Our leadership

Tom Robertson, executive director of the Vizient Research Institute, and his team have conducted strategic research on clinical enterprise challenges for more than 25 years. The groundbreaking work at the Vizient Research Institute drives exceptional member value using a systematic, integrated approach. The investigations quickly uncover practical, tested results that lead to measurable improvement in clinical and economic performance.

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