Hospitals and health systems upgrading people, process, policy, technology and data will be critical to let all key stakeholders know that sustainable procurement is highly valued — and here to stay ..read more

Nutrition is an important component in wound prevention and care, and dietitians play a key role in ensuring patients receive the proper nourishment to not just recover but thrive ..read more

While climate change is an undeniably complex problem, health systems can be part of the solution with some relatively simple design considerations that can help reduce the effects of a warming planet ..read more

As complements to angiography, intravascular ultrasound and fractional flow reserve give physicians a far more complete picture of patients’ coronary conditions ..read more

Interdepartmental collaboration is essential to ensuring appropriate infection prevention materials are available in the supply chain, and procedures and protocols must be continually evaluated to ensure supplies follow best practices ..read more

Nutrition is an important component in wound prevention and care, and dietitians play a key role in ensuring patients receive the proper nourishment to not just recover but thrive ..read more

While suppliers are working to mitigate blood collection tube shortages through protective allocation strategies and focusing production on tubes with the highest demand, those actions alone won’t immediately solve the problem. Providers must also consider ways to conserve allocated supplies by approaching blood collection in a more strategic — and flexible — way ..read more

Deploying effective strategies to maximize MRO spend can help ensure that maintenance, repair and operations remains the invisible hero of your hospital ..read more

Though providers are short staffed, tired and struggling with the impact of the financial, product and logistical challenges of the past two years, they continue to look ahead at how they can isolate themselves from such challenges in the future. Vizient believes that supply assurance begins with solving for issues more upstream in the supply chain to ensure transparency, data and redundancy make that last mile delivery smooth and reliable ..read more

Recent innovations in the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (NMMI) represent several scintillating moments that have a big-picture effect on health care ..read more