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Supply Chain
Financial Sustainability
Strategies to leverage health care purchasing power toward sustainability and a healthier future

By consistently scrutinizing social and environmental impact in all purchasing decisions, health care organizations can leverage their total purchasing power to influence suppliers and vendors to low... read more

Financial Sustainability
Building a Healthier Future: The Intersection of Healthcare Design and Climate

Hospitals can play an important role in reducing the future impacts of climate change through more sustainable planning, design and construction. It requires prioritizing using carbon capture product... read more

Supply Chain
Financial Sustainability
How Surgical Tray Standardization Saved One Hospital $50,000 and What You Should Know

As hospitals and health systems continue to work to manage costs while maintaining quality, surgical tray standardization remains an untapped resource for many organizations. As surgeons request inst... read more

Financial Sustainability
Observation of the Shifting Market Dynamics in Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures

Health care is constantly changing and evolving and with the continual movement towards technological integration, the competitive landscape for minimally invasive surgical procedures using robotics ... read more

Financial Sustainability
Quality & Clinical Operations
Vizient's Resiliency and Recovery Program Provides Comprehensive Resources and Rapid Response

Nearly one in three Americans lived in a county affected by a weather disaster during the summer of 2021. These weather disasters come on top of the existing COVID-19 pandemic, further straining hosp... read more

Financial Sustainability
Is Your Health System Ready for Direct-to-Employer Contracting? Four Keys to Success

Agrowing number of self-insured employers are bypassing traditional benefit networks offered by insurers and instead contracting directly with health systems to deliver health care services to their ... read more

Financial Sustainability
In Purchased Services, Understand What You're Negotiating

Its a generally accepted fact that purchased services account for 20 to 30% of a hospitals total expenses. Its also generally accepted that with more than 300 categories, its a largely untapped sourc... read more

Financial Sustainability
Winston Churchill and the 80/20 Rule

Rather than any early knockout in one of his epic matches, eulogies last month for boxing legend Muhammad Ali memorialized his three-decade, very public fight against Parkinsons disease. The once fle... read more

Financial Sustainability
Calculating the Cost of Length of Stay

Rather than any early knockout in one of his epic matches, eulogies last month for boxing legend Muhammad Ali memorialized his three-decade, very public fight against Parkinsons disease. The once fle... read more