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.
Health Care as an Uncommon Good: In Search of a Path Forward
Crosswinds podcast
Crosswinds is a series of casual conversations with national health care thought leaders from across the country. Episodes 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.
Report
Shining a light on disparities in mental health treatments
This report reveals significant disparities in mental health treatment between Medicaid and commercially insured patients, emphasizing the urgent need for improved access and equitable care.
Closing the Gap – Improving Access to Behavioral Health Care for Vulnerable Populations
The United States is facing an unprecedented mental health crisis. Variation in access to behavioral health care has resulted in health care disparities amongst different populations. Check out VRI’s latest research which highlights the variation in diagnosis and treatment of behavioral health conditions among economically advantaged patients and economically vulnerable patients and suggests strategies to close the disparities gap in behavioral health care.
Reducing Health Disparities: A Common Goal
The Vizient Research Institute's 2022 study imagined a future in which health disparities have become a social flash point. Based on a case study involving a fictional regional health care cooperative (RHCC) sometime in the future, member executives engaged in a year-long role-playing exercise as an RHCC governing board. They were charged with establishing guiding principles for a new financing system to reduce disparities and expand access for underserved populations and their medical needs.
The Promise of Health Systems: Right Care, Right Place, Right Time
Mergers and acquisitions continue to be the primary growth strategy among health care providers. The value of system formation to providers includes economies of scale and standardization of care processes, both of which eliminate avoidable variation to improve quality and reduce unnecessary spending. In addition to creating provider value, health system formation includes a promise of value to patients often explicitly stated as a promise to deliver the “right care at the right place at the right time.” Read the two VRI reports below to see how well health systems are doing in delivering on the health system value promise.
Controlling health care costs in the US: A fresh look at price transparency
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