• Connections Summit previews include enhancements across the new Vizient Edge platform, designed to help healthcare organizations deliver better operational and market performance using data and AI.
• Enhancements to Operational Intelligence and the Clinical Data Base will provide leaders with advanced analytics and system-level reporting to support better decision-making across their organizations.

IRVING, Texas: Today Vizient ® announced a $1 billion investment over the next four years in the expertise, products, and solutions that help healthcare organizations improve performance. The investment, announced last night at the annual Vizient Connections Summit, will support enhancements to existing solutions and the development of new technologies designed around client needs to help healthcare organizations improve their clinical, operational, supply chain, and financial performance.

One of the latest updates is Vizient Edge, the company’s new intelligent orchestration platform, bringing enterprise-wide data, analytics, AI, and expertise to healthcare leaders. The platform helps users identify performance improvement opportunities and measure results across growth strategy, clinical quality, operational, reimbursement, and supply chain functions.

“Healthcare organizations are facing increasing pressure to improve quality, manage costs, and adapt to a rapidly changing AI-driven environment,” said Arun Ramasubramanian, president of Data & Digital, Vizient. “This investment reflects our renewed commitment to helping healthcare leaders determine the next best action to improve performance. By combining Vizient's expertise with data, analytics, and AI at scale, we can help providers identify opportunities, take informed action, and achieve measurable results across their organizations.”

The investment builds on work already underway and supports a portfolio of enhancements intended to help healthcare leaders make better decisions, improve performance, and achieve stronger outcomes.

Several innovations being previewed at Summit across the Vizient Edge platform include Operational Intelligence, Vizient’s next-generation operational performance solution for health systems. Reimagined and rebuilt on the foundation of the Operational Data Base (ODB), Operational Intelligence advances operational benchmarking with AI-assisted data preparation, guided analytics and actionable intelligence, helping healthcare leaders quickly identify opportunities, understand performance drivers and act with confidence.

Summit will also showcase Strategy Intelligence, the next evolution of Sg2 EDGE, helping healthcare leaders identify growth opportunities, evaluate tradeoffs, and move confidently from insight to action. It combines claims, market demand, growth forecasts, and Vizient’s expert research and proprietary frameworks, with AI that synthesizes intelligence and accelerates strategic decision-making.

Additional enhancements previewed for the Clinical Data Base include system-level reporting and more timely analytics to drive improvement in Vizient’s industry-leading Quality & Accountability hospital rankings. Procedural Analytics is releasing a new Procedural Coach to surface and prioritize opportunities that will enable improved procedural cost and clinical outcomes through evidence-based recommended interventions.

Looking ahead, Vizient is developing the next generation of clinical, operational, and reimbursement intelligence capabilities, with additional innovations expected to become available in 2027.

About Vizient

Vizient® enables healthcare providers to deliver better, more affordable care by improving financial sustainability, enhancing system performance, and accelerating strategic growth. More than two-thirds of the nation's acute care providers and more than one-third of ambulatory providers rely on Vizient solutions and services. By combining the nation’s most influential healthcare leader networks with industry-leading data and analytics, comprehensive solutions, and advisory services through Kaufman Hall, Vizient helps providers achieve financial, clinical, and operational excellence. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Vizient has offices throughout the United States. Learn more at vizient.com.

Fonte: Business Wire