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Whether it’s preparation or adaptation, we connect providers and suppliers to data insights and expertise that help strengthen the supply chain. We are at your side to inform performance improvement decisions, drive market growth and help you stay ahead of industry changes.

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Supply

Strengthen your supply chain with expert information

Building supply chain assurance

Supply Assurance Strategy

Take a look at strategies that present opportunities while recognizing risks. Assess three strategic categories: sourcing and partnerships, leadership alignment and technology investment.

Building supply chain assurance

Health system margin pressures

Supply

See how declining health system operating margins is highlighting cost as a strategic issue and how provider and supplier collaboration can help both cost and operational performance.

Collaborate to improve margins

Category management path to value

Clinical Financial

The value of leveraging technology via a category management approach can help healthcare organizations realize savings and develop deeper supplier partner relationships.

Community Health Network case study

Budget impact projections

Supply Assurance Financial

Get the latest Budget Impact Projections report related to the healthcare supply chain. Gain insight on anticipated price changes over the next 18 months and plan for them now to lessen the impact of 2023 inflation.

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“Category management opened the door to savings. In about six weeks, we were able to unlock in 8% savings in spine and orthobiologics.”

Ryan Horn, MBA
Strategic Sourcing Analyst
Community Health Network,
Indianapolis, IN

Enact change to healthcare policy by thinking ahead

Supply Assurance

Tips for thinking ahead and identifying partnerships, and how using the right expertise best serves patients and front-line workers in times of need.

Get ahead of critical drug shortages

Informed decisions using cost quality and performance

Cardiovascular Financial

Learning how to prioritize initiatives that optimize performance means taking steps to enable transparency and establish strategic partnerships.

Read the Medical Device Tech Watch

“We now recognize that while data is important from an event perspective, it can be even more valuable from a patient journey perspective ― especially in PPI.”

Simrit Sandhu
Executive Vice President
Strategic Transformation and Clinical Supply Solutions
Vizient

Pharmacy

Get the answers to pharmacy performance questions

Cybersecurity preparedness

Operations

Insights on the impact of cyberattacks to healthcare facilities and the preparations necessary for providing pharmacy services and managing patient care during a downtime.

Challenges faced during downtime

Payer-mandated policies: the provider and patient impact

Financial

Financial and operational impact from payers implementing white bagging and brown bagging as part of their cost reduction strategies. [view time-mark 23:50]

Updates on long-standing issues

Expert insights to empower pharmacy planning

Financial

Use the latest insights from Vizient pharmacy experts in the Pharmacy Market Outlook, to help you plan, budget and prepare for this critical time in our industry.

Read the Pharmacy Market Outlook

$114M

Cost of additional resources required to manage the excess coordination of patient and provider needs associated with white bagging.

* Vizient estimate post survey, based on member survey responses.

Strategy

Tune your growth engine with industry insights

New

Taking sight of pediatric point of care: Part 1

Operations Financial

The pediatric patient volume shift to outpatient settings has been slower than other segments and is driven more by patient and family preferences than costs.

See the forecasts and impacts

New

Taking sight of pediatric point of care: Part 2

Supply Financial

Understanding the outpatient shuffle to ambulatory sites can help providers and suppliers optimize utilization and manage spend in this care setting.

Look at spend considerations

Foodservice challenges effect health system strategies

Financial Operations

Understand the impacts, consequences of three major foodservice issues impacting hospitals – shortages, price and workforce – and why leaders should render strategic attention.

Mitigate long-term implications

Developing strategic partnerships

Clinical Financial

Creative partnerships, including novel collaborations with medical suppliers, are one way providers are advancing priorities such as value-based care amid many operational and financial challenges.

See the path to partnerships

Clinical

Stay ahead of challenges using data-driven insights

Technology advancements in magnetic resonance safety

Capital

As magnetic resonance capabilities continue to advance, learn how to respond to the additional safety and technology challenges facing your workers and patients.

Advancing MR safety

Capital equipment for greater MR safety

Consider procurement of ferrous metal detectors for magnetic resonance suites as part of facility safety measures and budget planning.

Data and collaboration improve TAVR quality

Cardiovascular

Strategic collaboration leveraging data, insights and industry advancements will help expand health equity and address social determinants of healthcare.

Key points and report

Assess clinical data prior to planning new TAVR sites of care

Collaboration that leverages data and technology may be more beneficial to underserved populations than opening additional sites in markets where transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures are already being performed.

Operations

Accelerate performance improvement with service line and business intelligence

Can outsourcing support organizational scale?

Spend Management Strategy

Outsourcing decisions must be well-informed and align with strategic goals and market considerations.

Assess the risks and rewards

Orthopedics, spine and the shift towards ambulatory

Orthopedics

Learn how providers and suppliers can take proactive strides to prepare as orthopedic and spine procedures shift from acute sites to ambulatory centers.

Ready for ambulatory success

Beyond price improvement to supply chain excellence

Price Assurance Supply

See how to improve price plus efficiency in key operational areas to drive larger long-term success.

Efficiency unchained

8 ways to control total cost of care

Strategy Financial

To lower the exponentially increasing total cost of care, health system leaders should examine these eight non-supply areas for improvements.

See how to regain control

Financial

Power your financial success with data and expertise

Digital infrastructure for building patient connections

Clinical Technology

Efforts are increasing to build digitally fluent health systems for leveraging new solutions that target and engage patient groups, and advance patient care management

See digital trends in healthcare

3 steps to assess new service line technology

Clinical Orthopedics

It's essential for organizations to use a proven and data-driven model so decision-makers factor in clinical benefits, financial impact and market drivers for more informed decisions.

Assessing beyond price

Economic and global market indicators for budgeting

Supply

Plan ahead with our price change projections on medical supplies, equipment and purchased services. For Members - log in for access.

Budget Impact Projections

3.4%

Forecasted increase in overall market prices for supplies from July 2022 to June 2023.

* Vizient Budget Impact Projections Report, Feb 2022.