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Quality & clinical operations
Workforce & culture
Courageous Conversations: Fostering Meaningful Dialogue About Quality End-of-Life Care

Vizient’s Nicole Spatafora, assistant vice president, performance improvement programs, offers key takeaways for healthcare organizations when conversing with patients about palliative care. read more

Quality & clinical operations
Understanding Options for Breast Reconstruction

More than 100,000 women undergo breast reconstruction surgery each year. It’s a deeply personal decision, and one that requires an understanding of the various options and what’s involved in each. read more

Profitable growth
Quality & clinical operations
Facing the Game Changers: A New Era of Healthcare Access

With retail powerhouses, tech titans, venture capitalists and insurance providers reshaping the healthcare terrain, it’s more important than ever for healthcare organizations to realize their patient... read more

Quality & clinical operations
Helping Mothers Navigate Postpartum Depression: Interventions for Healthcare Organizations

In support of the health and wellbeing of mothers, Christina Driskill with Vizient’s Patient Safety Organization offers interventions that organizations can implement to create a healthy environment ... read more

Quality & clinical operations
Workforce & culture
Building a Successful Strategy to Embrace Advanced Practice Providers

To celebrate National Advanced Practice Providers Week (APPs), Vizient AVP of Clinical Team Insights Christen Hunt outlines the steps necessary to build a successful APP workforce strategy. read more

Supply chain
Quality & clinical operations
Smart Technologies are Changing the Future of Healthcare — Even at Patients’ Bedsides

One such technology that has the potential to revolutionize patient care, particularly at the point of treatment and convalescence, is smart wireless medical beds, which can improve everything from p... read more

Quality & clinical operations
Workforce & culture
Beyond the Buzz: A Roadmap to Responsible AI Implementation in Healthcare

Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare, and it's crucial that we navigate this transformation responsibly. Vizient CEO Byron Jobe discusses how healthcare organizations can take steps to ado... read more

Quality & clinical operations
Are Radiology Detector Grids on the Brink of Obsolescence?

The healthcare community’s attention to radiation exposure has fueled the advent of newer technologies like digital detectors that offer the promise of reduced radiation exposure while maintaining di... read more

Data & analytics
Quality & clinical operations
How Big Data Illuminates Social Drivers, Environmental Impacts and Patient Health

There is often a disconnect that exists between sustainability and health equity. Pinpointing the immense overlap between environmental impacts and social drivers of health is no easy feat, but data ... read more

Workforce & culture
Quality & clinical operations
Looking Ahead at Workforce Needs to Care for the Patient of the Future

Caring for the patient of the future requires building a workforce with the right mix of skills, roles and functions to tackle the growing list of drivers upending healthcare. These include an increa... read more