Insights

In conversations with hospitals and health system leadership across the U.S., most management teams express the same goal: get back to breakeven. For many, the road to breakeven will be bumpy with gains and setbacks along the way.read more

Though analytical reporting is becoming more automated over time, Excel reporting is nowhere near its sunset. With that in mind, here is a list of necessities to provide clear, concise and consistent results to support effective decision making.read more

Ashleigh Kervel outlines six ways healthcare leadership can leverage electronic health records (EHRs) to improve clinical practice and business decisions.read more

Vizient Clinical Data Base findings revealed people with intellectual disabilities were at severe risk of contracting and dying from COVID-19. The research led to policy changes — and an ongoing mission to ensure improved healthcare experiences.read more

The layering of the VVI’s extensive data sets illuminates how multiple social needs and the quality-of-life issues that inevitably accompany them are inextricably linked to health and environmental inequities — unearthing the root of the problem.read more

A unique social needs index distinguishes specific neighborhood vulnerabilities and their impact on community health outcomes and life expectancy in a way that hasn't been done before.“Health equity” and “social determinants of health” (SDoH) are terms often used in health care to brand measured needs in underserved populations and communities. Yet in many of those communities, the connection between people and the issues surrounding those needs is fragmented and disconnected.Vizient is working to change this through the development of a unique vulnerability index that will serve as a singular clinical data index for SDoH at the neighborhood level. Designed to support members' existing health equity strategy, the patent pending Vizient Vulnerability Index™ can save hospitals and health systems from having to embark on similar indexing research.read more

What started in the 1980s for academic medical centers to share outcomes data and best practices has grown to become the nation’s definitive analytics platform for hospital performance and improvement. The Vizient® Clinical Data Base (CDB) welcomes more than 1,050 hospital facilities leveraging the platform’s outcomes data to benchmark against peers to reduce variation and identify and sustain performance improvements. As the number of CDB participants grows, so does the collective value of that data.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

Necessity is the mother of invention. But as hospitals and health systems look to technology to address their workforce challenges, necessity also seems to be the mother of adoption. The ripple effects from COVID-19 have highlighted the need for reimagining who delivers care and how they deliver it.read more