The clinical standard for benchmarking and improving patient outcomes

Consolidate quality and cost performance into a single guided visual experience. Dashboard Builder helps leaders monitor key indicators, compare results across peer groups, and identify variation — making it easier to move from high-level trends to the detailed multi-level analysis that drives action.

Whether teams need recurring reports or deeper ad-hoc analysis, CDB provides the flexibility to explore data and answer questions quickly. Prebuilt reports address common priorities, while customizable options enable users to analyze trends and investigate specific questions across populations, service lines, providers, and encounters.

Evaluate provider performance with the rigor and consistency required to meet regulatory expectations. Provider Insight delivers scorecards, patient-level drill-downs, and structured workflows for review, approval, sign-off, and archiving — supporting Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) processes that require reliable, repeatable provider-level documentation.

When team need deeper analyses, the Data Download tool provides access to detailed data extracts. It supports custom reporting, validation, and broader analytic workflows — while maintaining alignment with CDB’s standardized definitions and methodologies in the format and environment your organization prefers. More flexibility, fewer workarounds.

Extract custom CDB reports via API — including cost, quality, and utilization outcomes with selected filters and benchmark detail. Pull data at scale on a scheduled cadence and integrate it directly into your internal Business Intelligence (BI) and visualization tools. Embed CDB insights within existing workflows using your preferred applications and programming languages.

CDB primarily uses administrative billing data submitted by participating organizations, similar to information found on a UB-04 billing form. Vizient enhances this data with additional value-added metrics, including key clinical indicators, AHRQ safety and quality indicators, NHSN metrics, core measures data, and standardized service line definitions and risk-adjusted values for key outcomes to support accurate benchmarking and meaningful performance analysis.

Unlike tools that stop at high-level comparisons, CDB enables teams to benchmark against customized credible by-name peer groups, understand what is driving performance, and work from the same underlying data across dashboards, reports, provider workflows, and patient-level analysis.

CDB is used by a broad range of healthcare organizations, including academic medical centers, complex teaching hospitals, community hospitals and critical access hospitals. It is trusted by 98% of academic medical centers, with more than 250+ health systems and over 1,600+ facilities nationwide.

CDB includes a suite of modules designed to support a wide range of users—from analysts and technical teams to executive leadership. Dashboard Builder provides guided analytics, while Report Builder enables flexible ad hoc reporting. Report Express offers prebuilt reports for quick insights, and Provider Insight supports provider-specific reporting workflows. CDB Download allows access to patient-level data, and the API Developer Portal enables programmatic access to Vizient data and analytics methodologies.

Vizient Quality & Accountability Study is national benchmarking program that enables hospitals to compare year-over-year performance against similar organizations and identify targeted areas for improvement. Its annual scorecard uses a full year of the most recent data from CDB, NHSN, and HCAHPS, and is supported by additional resources including quarterly calculators and a Progress Report that help teams monitor results and model improvement scenarios.