Vizient

Vizient is the nation's largest member-owned healthcare performance improvement company. It provides data-driven insights, tools and best practices that help healthcare organisations improve cost, quality and market performance. The company has served the sector for more than 40 years and operates across the United States.

Its reach within American healthcare is extensive. Vizient works with 97% of the nation's academic medical centers, more than 69% of the country's acute care hospitals and over 35% of the ambulatory market, spanning research hospitals, community and rural hospitals, and ambulatory care providers.

The company's work falls into four areas: spend management, which helps organisations manage and reduce spend; data and digital solutions, which supply insights and digital tools to hospitals and health systems; consulting, providing advisory services on cost, quality and market performance; and member networks, which connect providers to analytics, advisory services and collaboration opportunities. Technical work centres on data analytics, healthcare data and digital solutions, performance improvement analytics and spend management.

As a member-owned organisation, Vizient is structured around collaboration with the providers it serves. Its approach is designed to work for both large-scale research hospitals and rural community hospitals, with an emphasis on innovation that serves diverse provider types.