Bring clarity to complex operational decisions
Access trusted benchmarks and insights across labor and expense performance — so your teams can staff smarter, budget with confidence, and identify where to act across your system.
Why Operational Data Base?
Vizient's Operational Data Base (ODB) gives healthcare leaders the benchmarks, insights, and expert guidance they need to make confident decisions across 250+ hospital departments — from staffing and budgeting to cost reduction and resource planning.
Robust datasets at your fingertips
One connected view across labor and non-labor expenses
Unite labor, supply utilization, and departmental expense data - with the depth and flexibility to slice it the way your organization needs.
Transparency you can trust
See exactly where you stand against your peers
Compare performance across peer cohorts and internal departments using transparent methodologies, leading normalization and data mapping logic, and relevant peer groups built for healthcare operations.
From insight to action
Intelligence that pinpoints where to act next
When an off-cycle budget request lands, leadership questions a staffing model, or an in/outsourcing decision needs defending - ODB gives you the insights and guidance to act decisively.
Built for the decisions that shape performance
Supporting financial and operational efficiency across your system
Benchmark staffing levels, identify productivity opportunities, and optimize labor deployment across departments. ODB delivers comparative insights that help leaders balance labor costs with quality care delivery.
Compare departmental expenses across relevant peer groups, pinpoint cost variances, and focus improvement efforts where they deliver the greatest financial impact. Support data-driven budgeting with trusted benchmarks.
Understand utilization patterns, compare departmental performance, and uncover opportunities to maximize existing resources. Drive throughput improvements with data-backed visibility into capacity constraints.
Key Services
Expertise that maximizes your ROI
Product Advisors
Healthcare operations experts who provide one-on-one guidance to maximize your ODB capabilities.
Service Delivery Executives
Dedicated executive support providing ongoing consultation and strategic performance guidance.
Implementation and onboarding
Streamlined implementation with dedicated resources, user guides, and role-based staff training.
Peer learning and best practice sharing
Networking among 800+ hospitals with community forums for best practice sharing.
Flexible reporting capabilities and dedicated resources
Customized templates, tailored reports, and dynamic dashboards – with a dedicated aligned to your goals, plus a dedicated expert to help interpret insights, answer questions, and keep your team moving forward.
Tailored training
Role-based training built around your workflows, so teams can build confidence faster, use data more effectively, and drive stronger day-to-day decisions.
Featured report
Harnessing the true power of cultural, clinical and operational data
Discover strategies from healthcare operations leaders using ODB to optimize labor performance.
Performance intelligence that drives results
Trusted operational intelligence at scale
Hospitals benchmarking performance
Broad participation delivering comparative intelligence across diverse operational environments and peer groups nationwide.
Hospital departments with granular insights
Department-level benchmarking across clinical and non-clinical operations, enabling precise performance comparison.
Healthcare operations expertise
Decades of experience refining methodologies and helping leaders drive performance improvements with trusted data.
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Frequently asked questions
Your questions about Operational Data Base, answered.
ODB serves hospitals, health systems, and academic medical centers across all bed sizes and service mixes. With 800+ participating organizations, peer groups reflect diverse operational environments.
ODB delivers transparent, trusted benchmarks built from one of the industry’s richest health system datasets – with leading normalization and mapping logic that gives teams the confidence to act decisively.
ODB delivers benchmarking insights across 250+ hospital departments, covering clinical operations, ancillary services, and support functions with granular departmental data.
Every ODB client receives product advisor support, access to peer learning networks, case study libraries, and ongoing training resources. We also offer analytics support, submission services, and additional custom dashboard buildouts as a service.
Implementation timelines vary based on data integration requirements and organizational readiness. Our team works closely with you to establish data feeds, configure peer groups, and train users for rapid value realization.
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