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Data & Analytics
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

Data & Analytics
Vizient Vulnerability Index™ is a Uniquely Big-Picture Look at Patient Outcomes and the Social Needs That Impact Them
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by Beth Godsey, MSPA, MBA

Calculating the increasingly complex equation of ensuring everyone can attain their highest level of health requires an index with robust data integration that allows health inequities to be examined... read more

Data & Analytics
Profitable Growth
Leveraging network integrity to achieve customer loyalty

When looking for the best customer loyalty strategy for healthcare organizations, using physician outreach teams and network optimization tools can bring the most success in improving patient leakage... read more

Data & Analytics
Supply Chain
The Top 8 Must-Haves for More Effective Analytical Reporting Within Category Management

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... read more

Data & Analytics
Quality & Clinical Operations
Optimizing Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to Improve Clinician Efficiency, Business Decision-making

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

Data & Analytics
Miles to Go Before I Sleep: Robert Frost and the Common Good

The percentage of Americans aged 65 or older will surpass 80 million by 2040 and will hit 94.7 million by 2060, brining brings with it an enormous burden of chronic illness, shouldered by a group of ... read more

Data & Analytics
CMS Updates its Star Ratings: A Simpler Methodological Approach Provides Clarity Needed to Drive Change
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by Beth Godsey, MSPA, MBA

Whether you are a hospital administrator, a physician, a nurse, or other member of your hospital’s family,you know well the true north of our daily purpose is to provide quality health care to patien... read more

Data & Analytics
The Power of an Enterprise-wide, Data-driven Strategy

Health systems and providers continue to face ongoing challenges associated with delivering high-quality, cost-effective care while balancing decreasing reimbursements and new value-based payment mod... read more

Data & Analytics
There’s No Easy Button For Improving Risk-Adjusted Mortality

When hospital leaders are presented withperformance improvement opportunities uncovered through Vizient's clinical benchmarking data, it’s not uncommon for them to first look for reasons for below-av... read more