Clinical Data Base

Improve outcomes, reduce costs, and enhance patient care with real-time insights

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A clinical data base that offers transparent data for reliable insight

The Vizient® Clinical Data Base (CDB) is a powerful healthcare analytics platform that helps hospitals benchmark performance, identify improvement opportunities, and ensure regulatory compliance. By providing high-quality, transparent data on patient outcomes — such as mortality, length of stay, complications, and readmissions — CDB enables organizations to reduce care variation, optimize resource utilization and improve documentation and coding. With clinical benchmarking tools like dashboards and customizable reports, providers can quickly assess performance and make data-driven decisions. Ultimately, CDB empowers healthcare organizations to enhance quality, safety, and financial outcomes through actionable insights tailored to their patient population.

Why Vizient?

Trusted by 1300+ hospitals, CDB is the gold standard for healthcare systems across the nation.

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    Health Systems

Trusted by 1300+ hospitals

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 1,300 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.

Report Builder and Report Express provides:

  • Customizable, flexible analytic reports
  • Proprietary Vizient reports
  • Quality & Accountability (Q&A)
  • Medicare cost reports
  • CMS Star Ratings calculator

Vizient Quality & Accountability Ranking is the North Star

Produced annually, the Vizient Q&A ranking includes a full year of the most recently available data from the Clinical Data Base, National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS). This assessment evaluates sustained performance improvement across clinical quality, cost and utilization metrics within these 6 critical domains (mortality, efficiency, safety, effectiveness, patient centeredness, and equity) providing transparent peer-to-peer benchmarking and granular insights to meet your needs.

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Get visibility into resource utilization at the provider level can be elusive but necessary to pinpoint areas of opportunity and implement widespread change.