Edge Perspectives

With the pandemic, every industry is experiencing a change in consumer expectations and how consumers interact with their products. Health care has some similarities to other industries, as well as some unique differences, so we recently reached out to health care consumers to ask how their expectations and preferences have changed over the past 18 months. In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Prin...

Last week, Sg2 held an expanded edition of Executive Summit, our leading member conference focused on health system enterprise strategy. Today’s Sg2 Perspectives features audio from three of our guest panelists—Dr David Carlson, SVP, Provider Enterprise, and Chief Provider Officer, MultiCare (WA); Mikki Clancy, Chief Digital Officer, Premier Health (OH); and Edward Rafalski, Chief Strategy Officer...

Sg2 has gotten many questions from members this year on care shifting to the home, so this week on Sg2 Perspectives, Vizient Senior Director of Pharmacy Services Carina Dolan and Senior Director of Pharmacy Consulting Brian Hardy and Sg2 Associate Principal and cancer service line lead Cory Jones join us to discuss the shifting of infusions from hospital and clinic-based campuses to the home, from...

This week, Sg2 Principal Tawnya Bosko, DHA, and Sg2 Associate Principal and cancer service line lead Cory Jones join Sg2 Perspectives for the final episode in our unofficial System of CARE series. Tawnya and Cory take a comprehensive look at incentives and how they drive how the System of CARE is used, including fee-for-service environments vs value-based arrangements, the radiation oncology model...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, joins Trevor DaRin to interview FHN Chief Operating Officer/Chief Nursing Officer Kathryn Martinez, MSNRN, FACHE, on the health system’s integrated approach to care transitions—including making the case for ROI and setting up community liaison programs to assist with culturally competent care—and its success with remote patien...

This week, we get back to our service line conversations as Sg2 Perspectives welcomes Sg2 Director Ryota Terada and Vizient Consulting Director Joe Tomaro, who join us to discuss all things orthopedics. Ryota and Joe dig into the landscape for hip fractures and hip and shoulder replacement; the procedural shift to ambulatory settings; and health system opportunities for cost savings and partnershi...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Chief Product Officer and cofounder of AVIA Eric Jensen and Sg2 Principal Brianna Motley do a status check on the progress health systems have made in using digital health technology to serve their patients and discuss the challenges to digital health transformation strategy and execution, as well as take a look into the future of digital health regarding reimburseme...

This week, Sg2 Perspectives sounds a bit different—we are sharing audio from our health system leader discussion panel during the Sg2 Executive Summit July Webinar Series because our guest panelists touched on two key topics that many health systems are currently focusing on: workforce and how to approach health equity. Listen in as Dr. Alisahah Cole, System Vice President, Population Health and I...

This week, we continue our series of Sg2 Perspectives episodes that dive into the details of health system service lines. In this episode, cardiovascular experts Sg2’s Associate Principal Chad Giese and Director Josh Aaker, PhD, and Vizient’s Associate Principal Doug Beinborn join us to talk CV technologies, including key learnings and challenges organizations should know and be thinking about for...

This week begins a series of Sg2 Perspectives episodes that dive into the details of health system service lines, and in this episode, we focus on the landscape for spine care with neurosciences and spine experts Sg2 Senior Consulting Director Katherine Zentner and Vizient Consulting Director Patrick Vega. Spine care continues to be high priority for many of our members, but they’re facing pressur...

When CMS finalized the hospital price transparency rule in 2019, Turquoise Health saw the potential for price transparency to really shift the health care industry. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, CEO of Turquoise Health Chris Severn joins Sg2’s Brian Esser and Kelly Richard to talk about health system strategy in price transparency, from recognizing the opportunity to work more effectively with pa...

As the cost of insuring employee populations steadily rises on an annual basis, employers are looking to new business models to bend the cost curve. On this week’s episode, we talk with Vizient’s Jim Reilly, Senior Principal and Jeff Hayes, Executive Director of Direct-to-Employer solutions at Vizient, and Sg2’s Brian Esser, Associate Principal and expert in value-based care and employer health.  ...

Early in the pandemic, Tampa General Hospital decided to bifurcate the organization so it could prioritize its COVID-19 response but, at the same time, continue to focus on strategy execution. This week, CEO John Couris joins Sg2 Perspectives to talk to Bill Woodson about how Tampa General Hospital has continued to expand its System of CARE and used innovation to respond to COVID-19, as well as wh...

As we globally contend with the Delta variant, it’s become clear that COVID-19 is a moving target. This week, Vizient’s Associate Vice President, Pharmacy Sourcing and Program Services, Azra Behlim, PharmD, MBA, joins Sg2 Perspectives to help us understand vaccines and virus behavior, sharing her extensive knowledge on COVID-19 variants, the occurrence of breakthrough cases and the development of...

Sg2 and the Vizient family of companies are striving to build our workplace, as well as our business and our communities, into a place where people not only feel safe but also feel they belong and can be their authentic selves. It’s difficult work—and it becomes even more complicated for health systems when it goes beyond employees to encompass health equity for the patients they serve. In this we...

Are new entrants to the health care market really disrupting the health care landscape? Or are they just “changing the game” for physicians and, ultimately, consumers? Join us for this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, as host Trevor DaRin, Sg2 Director, becomes our guest expert! He breaks down disrupters vs game changers in the health care industry, how the game changers—big tech, payers, new physician gr...

In talking to Sg2 members nationwide, one thing is clear: ambulatory strategy is currently top of mind, whether it’s due to disruption by new entrants in the health care space or the variability of specific procedure shifts. In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, we welcome Sg2 Associate Principal Chad Giese, Director Josh Aaker and Principal Mike Strilesky as we dive into Part 2 of our unofficial Syste...

During the pandemic, many organizations spent time scrutinizing the health of their own systems and changing their strategies and priority lists, as well as asking themselves “What do we do in the next 12 to 18 months—and beyond?” This week, Sg2 Perspectives welcomes Sg2 Senior Principal Bill Woodson as he provides a sneak peek into our upcoming 2021 Executive Summit Webinar Series (starting Tuesd...

Henry Soch has been an Sg2 institution for 15.5 years, leading our work in new technology and innovation in the health care space. We are sad to say that Henry is retiring, but this week on Sg2 Perspectives, we got the rare opportunity to chat with him about his illustrious 40-year career in the health care industry. Henry shares the most impactful technological changes he witnessed firsthand, the...

As the COVID-19 pandemic impacted physician office revenue, many believed health systems would acquire smaller practices. While this did occur, there has also been a reshaping of physician–health system relationships, along with the appearance of alternative paths for physician groups. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2’s Principal Jennifer O’Connor and Associate Principal Michael Lutkus dig into...

Previously on Sg2 Perspectives, we discussed our care continuum framework—the System of CARE—and how health systems can attract and retain patients within their care continuum. This week, we shift that discussion to focus on patient access strategy for academic medical centers (AMCs), as Sg2’s Intelligence Director and Medicine Lead Justin Cassidy, PhD, and Director of Strategic Analytics Rahul Ga...

After interviewing CEO of Advent Health Terry Shaw on the health system’s new financial and clinical realities earlier this year, we realized we wanted to expand on some of the themes from that conversation. So this week  Advent Health’s Corporate Vice President of Strategic Planning Josef Ghosn joins Sg2 Perspectives, along with special guest Bill Woodson, to dig deeper into the system’s accelera...

In larger health systems, finance and strategy teams tend to speak different languages and work more in parallel than in tandem. In this week’s episode of Sg2 Perspectives, Yale New Haven Health’s CFO Vincent Tammaro and CSO Matthew Comerford discuss how their two teams partner to drive strategic planning and focus the organization on growth initiatives, as well as “the art of team play” that goes...

How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect children, as well as the health systems that serve them? This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we discuss the perceived impacts vs the reality with Raphe Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Children’s Hospital Colorado, and Sean O’Leary, MD, infectious disease specialist and Director of Colorado Children's Outcomes Network. Sg2’s Principal and Medical Director of Qual...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives we discuss a new approach to a common challenge: physician alignment. Health First needed a new physician alignment mechanism, and Privia Health’s expertise in technology and value-based care made them the ideal partner. Partnering is never easy, but Drew Rector, Chief Strategy Officer at Health First, and Mike Flammini, Senior Vice President of Business Development w...