The latest Vizient Spend Management Outlook projects a 2.78% overall increase in healthcare supply chain prices for July 2026 to June 2027.

Maternal mortality declines, health system suffers a cyberattack, Medicare Advantage enrollment growth slows

At recent Vizient CEO Networks meetings, discussions focused on how structural pressure, chronic disease and AI are converging—and why executive alignment will determine what comes next.

Explore Kaufman Hall’s Capital Playbook for health systems, a guide to prioritizing investments, optimizing funding strategies, and strengthening financial resilience in a shifting healthcare environment.

Learn what site-neutral payment means for health systems, key impacts on revenue and strategy, and how organizations can proactively prepare to succeed in the evolving reimbursement landscape.

Explore cardiologists’ perspectives on AI-assisted clinical decision support — how AI impacts time savings, diagnostic efficiency, errors, and clinician confidence in care delivery in this Kaufman Hall infographic.

Read the Gist Weekly for February 27, 2026 — expert analysis on the latest healthcare trends, including measles outbreaks, major hospital strikes ending, Medicare trust fund projections, and industry policy shifts to help leaders stay informed.

As care expands beyond inpatient settings and quality scrutiny grows, hospitals must elevate clinical documentation integrity into a strategic, enterprise-wide capability supported by aligned leadership, strong processes, and thoughtful technology to accurately reflect patient complexity and performance.

The last decade in healthcare has focused on building scale through mergers, diversification and integration. But scale alone does not guarantee coordination, access or performance. In this perspective, Vizient CEO Byron Jobe explains why systemness in healthcare is no longer a strategic preference but an operational imperative.

Explore how the rural family physician workforce is declining, what structural challenges are driving shortages, and potential solutions from experts on the Kaufman Hall Gist Healthcare Podcast.

As the use cases for artificial intelligence-enabled solutions (AI) continue to expand, many health system financial leaders are asking what the “right” level of IA investment is for their organization. against other priorities.