Edge Perspectives

Health systems are facing capital planning slowdown and an uncertain financial future, so in this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, we invited Managing Partner of LRVHealth Keith Figlioli to talk about today’s investment opportunities and where he sees private equity and venture capital moving next in health care. Keith discusses how health systems are thinking about partnerships and balancing transformati...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’re bringing you a real-world example of an organization taking an innovative approach to care delivery for patients in its community who have struggled with care access: pediatric asthma patients. President and CEO of Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) Steve Miff joins us to share PCCI’s four-prong approach to tackling pediatric asthma, how it leverage...

Evidence of the differences in cardiovascular disease between men and women has continued to build over the past few years, creating an increased interest in the development of women’s cardiovascular programs. So this week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Senior Director Rhae Ana Gamber and Sg2 Fellow Dr Jeremy Miller join us to talk about why women’s heart health is so important today, new types of women...

In today’s health care climate—where health systems are trying to balance growth with operational and financial challenges—Sg2 has been advising our members to focus on near-term growth by building a more deliberate funnel of the right patients for their systems. So in this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, we’re joined by Sg2 VP, Patient Activation and Consumer Innovation, Jon Barlow and Associate Princip...

Sg2’s parent company, Vizient, hosts a yearly Health Care Executive Forum for C-suite leaders to connect and talk about top-of-mind issues in the health care industry. So in this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Group SVP, Strategic Growth Solutions, John Becker; Senior Vice President, Intelligence, Trine Tsouderos; and Senior Principal Bill Woodson join us to share the key themes they heard, includin...

The health care industry continues to face workforce challenges, so this week on Sg2 Perspectives we invited Sg2 Senior Consulting Director Janelle Kwan, MBA, and Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, to dive a bit deeper into these challenges and focus on the state of the service line workforce. Janelle and Jennifer discuss big storylines in physician employment and how organizations can not only o...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’ve invited Sg2’s new SVP of Intelligence, Trine Tsouderos, to discuss how the history of medicine and care delivery can give the current health care industry an idea of what the future may look like. Trine shares a bit of her background, what she’s learned from the history of medicine that can help us anticipate the future and what health care leaders can do to pr...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin joins Sg2 Principals Brian Esser and Rebecca Limestall to share what they’ve been hearing from different health care organizations and teams as they travel around the country, talking to our members. Trevor, Brian and Rebecca discuss care redesign from an AMC and IDN perspective, the reaction to disrupters in primary care and the focus on short-term...

In today’s health care landscape, disrupters are everywhere, so this week on Sg2 Perspectives, we invited Sg2 Associate Principal Trevor DaRin and Senior Consulting Director Casi Roethler to talk to us about how these health care disrupters are changing the game. Trevor and Casi discuss the disrupters to watch in the payer and retail spaces, the implications for primary care, and how health system...

Value-based care (VBC) continues to be important as a way to drive changes in how we deliver health care services. So this week on Sg2 Perspectives, we invited Sg2 Senior Advisor and VBC expert Laura Jacobs to dive deeper into the state of value-based care. Laura discusses the different components to value-based care and how it can help inform care redesign, as well as how primary care can evolve...

A popular topic for Sg2 Perspectives over the past year has been new care models and disruptions in primary care. So this week we invited UpStream Care CEO Dr Sanjay Doddamani and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Valinda Rutledge (a former Sg2 fellow!) to talk about UpStream Care’s approach to primary care. Dr Doddamani and Valinda discuss the development and success of UpStream Care, as well as th...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’re joined by two guests from our strategic partner Kaufman Hall, SVP Lisa Goldstein and Managing Director Eric Jordahl, who discuss the state of our economy in 2023 and how they expect it to impact health care utilization, as well as hospital/health system operations and financing, for the near- and midterm. Lisa and Eric also field questions related to payer mix,...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Senior Director Anthony Guth and Principal Brianna Motley join us to talk about the capacity constraints hospitals and health systems are facing today and how these constraints impact the health care landscape moving forward. Tony and Brianna discuss what’s driving capacity challenges, the opportunity for care redesign, and how to balance constraints and shortage...

Sg2 kicks off every year with our popular The Year Ahead webinar, where we focus on key themes in the health care space for the year to come. So this week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’ve invited our webinar presenters, Sg2 Principals Brian Esser, Brianna Motley and Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, and Senior Principal Bill Woodson, to recap the webinar and talk about how hospitals and health systems will need...

On this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, we’ve invited Sg2 Principal Jeff Moser and Senior Principal Bill Woodson and VP Crystal Mullis and AVP Corey Pegg to discuss some of 2022’s key health care challenges through a different lens: suppliers and emerging technology. Jeff,  Bill, Crystal and Corey dig into issues with workforce, inpatient capacity, site-of-care shifts and virtual care, and share how supp...

At Sg2, we’ve entered into forecasting season, which is an intense time of year for our forecasting teams as they quantify the key trends that end up in our national and market demand forecasts. So on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Senior Principal Madeleine McDowell, MD, FAAP, and Director Tori Richie—who lead our forecasting efforts—join us to provide a sneak peek at 2023 key themes and how t...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’re joined by Sg2’s Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, and National Vice President, Intelligence, Michael Humphrey, to talk about the challenges academic medical centers (AMCs) face in managing their business. Justin and Mike dig into how they leverage Sg2 and Vizient analytics to help AMCs strategically approach the management of patient volumes across their aca...

The US’s largest value-based payment model, the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), recently underwent changes designed to retain those organizations already involved and to encourage participation from new organizations. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Associate Principal Keely Macmillan joins us to talk about these changes (eg, a more gradual glide path to downside risk, the advancement o...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we turn our focus to Sg2’s recent 2022 AMC Summit, an event specifically for our academic medical center (AMC) members. Sg2’s Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, and National Vice President, Intelligence, Michael Humphrey join us to talk about four key themes that are important for AMCs moving into 2023, as well as share some inspiring AMC peer stories from the AMC...

We have a special treat for our listeners in this Sg2 Perspectives episode! Our podcast hosts, Sg2’s Senior Director Trevor DaRin, Director Tori Richie and Principal Jayme Zage, PhD, take a look back at our episodes from 2022 thus far and share their favorite quotes from our podcast guests. Unsurprisingly, their favorites also coincide with some of the biggest topics we’ve covered this year, such...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Senior Employer Outreach & Development Director MJ Burg and Senior Direct-to-Employer Network Development Director Benjamin Gazaway join us to talk about the what and how of direct-to-employer strategy. MJ and Benjamin share perspectives from both the employer and health system sides, covering various aspects of the direct-to-employer landscape and what the next...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, podcast hosts Trevor DaRin and Tori Richie are joined by Sg2 Principal Brian Esser to have a conversation around Sg2’s Insurance Coverage Estimates product. Trevor, Tori and Brian talk about the trends they’re tracking, including Medicaid enrollment, the growth of Medicare Advantage and the push/pull on the commercial insurance side.   Learn more about Sg2’s Insuranc...

Strategic approaches for primary care are more tailored and precise than ever, so this week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Tori Richie is joined by Sg2 Senior Director Trevor DaRin and Director Stephanie Snider as they dig into targeting the senior population to help redesign primary care. Tori, Trevor and Stephanie discuss primary care disrupters, integration with specialty services and how focusing o...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin joins Sg2 Principals Brian Esser and Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, in discussing what Sg2 is hearing from our member leadership teams and boards on the largest issues they’re facing today. Trevor, Brian and Jennifer share the big themes (eg, finance, workforce, site of care shifts, disrupters) and surprising questions, as well as what specific functiona...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we invited Sg2 Content Director Rich Daly, Principal Brian Esser and Senior Consultant Sushma Narra to break down the research they’ve been doing around current trends in the health care payer landscape. Brian and Sushma discuss payer behavior, bringing strategy to the managed care contracting table, creative partnership options and more.     We are always excited to...