Every day across Texas, thousands of patients receive care within University of Texas–affiliated hospitals. Ensuring that care is as safe, effective, and compassionate as possible requires more than individual excellence; it requires shared learning at the system scale.
That shared learning is the purpose of the UT Health Intelligence Platform (UT-HIP) Vizient Quality Collaborative, a systemwide forum where clinical leaders, quality experts, and analysts come together to examine performance, exchange evidence-based practices, and strengthen the knowledge that drives better patient outcomes.
Entering into its ninth year, the collaborative reflects a powerful truth - When hospitals learn together, patients everywhere benefit.
2025: Advancing Systemwide Learning Around Patient Safety
In 2025, multidisciplinary leaders across the UT System engaged in focused dialogue on high-priority safety and quality challenges central to patient protection and clinical reliability. Key areas of shared learning included:
- Prevention of pressure injuries
- Reduction of central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI)
- Improvement in glycemic safety and hypoglycemia awareness
- Broader opportunities to strengthen care processes, safety culture, and operational reliability
By openly sharing data trends, clinical experience, and emerging evidence, participating hospitals gained clearer insight into variation in practice, promising strategies across peer institutions, and opportunities for locally driven improvement.
The collaborative’s impact is not defined by mandates or uniform protocols. Its strength lies in fostering a trusted learning environment, one that equips each hospital to translate shared knowledge into meaningful progress for the patients and communities it serves. Growing participation throughout the year further reinforced the collaborative’s role as a cornerstone of transparency, partnership, and continuous learning across the UT Health enterprise.
2026: Expanding Momentum for the Future of Quality
Building on this strong foundation, UT-HIP is advancing the Vizient Quality Collaborative in 2026 with renewed focus on clarity, engagement, and forward-looking insight. An enhanced monthly format will:
- Illuminate systemwide performance trends and emerging risks
- Highlight institutional innovation and success stories
- Introduce clinical and national expertise shaping the future of care
- Foster structured peer dialogue that supports real-world improvement at the local level
Together, these refinements position the collaborative as more than a forum for discussion, they strengthen a coordinated learning network capable of accelerating safer care across Texas.
Priorities That Matter Most to Patients and Families
The 2026 agenda reflects the clinical and operational challenges most closely tied to patient outcomes and healthcare experience, including readmissions and care coordination, length of stay and discharge readiness, mortality improvement and goals-of-care alignment, prevention of hospital-acquired infections and pressure injuries, patient experience, AI-enabled early detection, the needs of a rapidly growing aging population, and continued focus on glycemic safety, emergency department flow, and blood conservation.
These priorities represent a unified commitment across UT institutions to pursue measurable improvement through shared knowledge, data transparency, and clinical collaboration.
One System, One Purpose: Better Care for Texas
The UT-HIP Vizient Quality Collaborative meets on the fourth Thursday of each month, yet its significance extends far beyond a calendar invitation. It demonstrates how an academic health system can function as a true learning community, sharing insight openly, learning rapidly, and advancing quality together rather than alone.
As healthcare evolves amid technological change, demographic shifts, and rising expectations for value, The University of Texas System is helping lead the way, translating collaboration, evidence, and shared purpose into safer care, stronger outcomes, and greater trust for the people of Texas.
