For many health systems, the emergency department (ED) is the front door. Patients seeking emergency care arrive expecting timely care. Their ED experience often shapes their trust and impression of the organization.

This is part two of a seven-part series that unpacks each pillar of the Vizient AI Maturity Assessment, sharing lessons from our work with leading health systems and practical steps to build maturity across every stage of the AI journey.

Advanced practice providers are a growing part of the healthcare workforce, but many organizations aren’t necessarily seeing the productivity gains they expected.

As healthcare inflation continues to outpace overall inflation, American families are spending more on care and bearing that cost unevenly.

Drug overdoses decline, new bipartisan healthcare agreement reached

Hospital rating downgrades declined in 2025 while the number of upgrades increased, resulting in a lower ratio of downgrades to upgrades and tempering higher downgrade activity in recent years.

A recent survey from Offcall concludes that most physicians use AI and want more of it; but more than 80% of them are dissatisfied with current offerings, particularly with the speed of adoption, communication about deployment and the level of influence physicians have in what tools get used.