Edge Perspectives

At Sg2, we’ve seen that both providers and life sciences and industry (LSI) organizations are looking to one another for new and innovative solutions to the health care challenges we’re facing today. So on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, PhD, is joined by Sg2/Vizient’s Amy Brouhle, National VP, Supplier Strategy & Business Development, and Karl Karlsson, PhD, Vice President, to...

Over the course of this year, Sg2 has been researching and forming tools around financial resiliency. So on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin is joined by Sg2 experts from our financial strategy practice, Principal Brian Esser, Senior Consultant Sushma Narra and Director Ryota Terada to talk about that research and its outcomes. Brian, Sushma and Ryota discuss the audience for the re...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin welcomes back Sg2 Senior Principal Bill Woodson for another episode of Grill Bill, where Bill shares what he’s been hearing from members and others across the health care industry. Bill touches on topics like AI and health equity, along with opportunities nontraditional entrants to the health care market are seeing, how traditional health systems ar...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin invited Sg2 Senior Director, Justin Cassidy, PhD, and Director Andrew Rebhan to debate the potential impact of AI at health systems and across the health care industry. Justin and Andrew talk about what’s new in the AI space, whether AI’s potential is overhyped, the challenges and opportunities for clinical applications, and more. For more, check ou...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin is joined by Sg2 Principal Brian Esser from our financial strategy practice and Associate Principal Joe Maher from our value transformation consulting practice to discuss Q2 earnings for those outside the traditional health system sphere, such as payers and new market entrants. Brian and Joe talk about the high-level trends, payer mix shifts and whe...

In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, podcast host Trevor DaRin talks about rural health care strategy with Sg2 Consulting Director Joshua Billstein. Josh discusses what our members are asking us around rural strategy and the differences between rural vs metropolitan markets, as well as recent examples of how our members are tackling rural health care challenges.   We are always excited to get ideas an...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, podcast host Jayme Zage, PhD, is joined by Vizient Senior Principal, Pharmacy Solutions, Steven Lucio, PharmD, BCPS, and Sg2 Senior Director Katherine Zentner to talk about the emergence of new therapeutics in the management of Alzheimer disease, along with the challenges and the benefits that they bring. Steven and Kate discuss the new antibody therapy LEQEMBI and h...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Senior Director and podcast host Tori Richie is joined by Sg2 orthopedics and spine service line expert Director Donnelle Jageman to discuss the orthopedics landscape. Donnelle discusses the private equity movement in the orthopedic space, strategically dealing with site of care shifts and robotics and orthopedics.    We are always excited to get ideas and feedba...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, our hosts—Sg2’s Associate Principal Trevor DaRin, Senior Director Tori Richie and Principal Jayme Zage, PhD—become our guests for our second episode on Sg2’s flagship event, Executive Summit 2023: Balancing Act: Finding Your Future Footing. Trevor, Tori and Jayme discuss key takeaways from event presenters, as well as the reflections from our members—both the perspec...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives we’re joined by Sg2 Principal Michael Lutkus to share some of the questions we’ve been hearing from our members, as the immense challenges they’re facing have caused them to think about their strategies on a much bigger scale. Michael discusses the work some health systems are doing and how they’ve been successful—along with the actions of those that have struggled—as...

During the recent Sg2 Executive Summit in Chicago, three leading members were asked to share the toughest challenges they face today and how the theme of the Summit, “Balancing Act: Finding Your Future Footing,” applies to their health systems. They are our guests on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives—Jason Chang, president of the Queen's Health System Innovation Institute and the health system’s execut...

Obesity and weight management medication is a hot topic in health care news these days, so for this week’s Sg2 Perspectives we invited Sg2 medicine service line and academic medical center experts Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, and Consultant Emily Smith to discuss the Sg2 bariatric surgery and obesity Impact of Change® Forecast. Justin and Emily also talk about payer mix shift and reimburse...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives we invited our behavioral health expert, Sg2 Director Stephanie Snider, to talk about what health systems are trying to solve regarding complicated behavioral health issues and how Sg2 has partnered with them to provide strategic guidance. Stephanie discusses the balance between improving access to care versus improving margins, the integration of behavioral health an...

The Sg2 Strategy Exchange is a networking and shared learning opportunity where Sg2 members’ strategic planning leaders come together to share their organizations’ strategic planning structures and processes. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Associate Principal Cory Jones and Senior Consulting Director Janelle Kwan join host Trevor DaRin to discuss the most recent session, focused on service lin...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’re diving into the idea of customer loyalty in health care, so we invited members of Sg2’s Consumer Innovation team, Principal Yelena Bouaziz and Consulting Director Tek Vu, to talk about focusing and connecting consumer efforts with traditional strategy work. Yelena and Tek discuss customer loyalty in the realm of capacity and growth, customer loyalty metrics, an...

Workforce shortages continue to challenge the health care industry, and digital health has been brought up as part of the solution to these challenges. So this week on Sg2 Perspectives we invited Sg2 AVP, Member Backed Ventures, Corey Pegg and Director Andrew Rebhan to talk to us about where digital health is today and where it’s going. Corey and Andrew discuss digital health and the end of the pu...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’re talking about clinically integrated networks (CINs) with Sg2 Associate Principal Joseph Maher. Joe discusses how CINs have evolved; their challenges and advantages; and how they can help improve health outcomes, patient experience and costs. We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com , find us...

The 2023 Executive Summit is coming up in July—with a theme of “Balancing Act: Find Your Future Footing”—so on Sg2 Perspectives this week, we invited Sg2 Principal Rebecca Limestall and Senior Principal Bill Woodson to give us a preview of what will be covered at Sg2’s flagship event. Rebecca and Bill provide insights into this year’s theme—as well as the balancing act between growth and margins—a...

In honor of Pride Month, Sg2 Perspectives invited Jacob Semple, Practice Manager, Virtua Pride Primary Care, to join us to discuss the organization’s segmented approach to providing primary care services for the LGBTQ+ community, as well as allies. Jake shares how Pride Primary Care got started, how its first year has gone and how the organization’s tailored approach to care has allowed them to pa...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives we check in with Sg2 Principal, Client Relations, Andrea Davis and Client Relations Director Traci Donato to learn about what’s top of mind for strategy leaders from our member health systems across the country. Traci and Andrea discuss creative partnerships, leveraging data and the focus on near-term growth, as well as share optimistic examples of how organizations a...

In May, Sg2 released our 2023 Impact of Change® Forecast, which provides the health care industry’s most advanced projection capabilities to accurately forecast national and market demand trends not just for the next year, but for the next decade. So this week on Sg2 Perspectives, we invited two instrumental contributors to the Impact of Change forecast, Sg2 Principal Karyl Kopaskie, PhD, and Dire...

Sg2 Perspectives has been speaking to many of our experts across the Sg2 and Vizient enterprise on what topics are resonating the most with health system members around the country. On this week’s episode, we dive deeper into these topics with our Sg2 service line colleagues—Principal Chad Giese, Associate Principal Cory Jones and Director Stephanie Snider—to find out how these themes fit into ser...

Digital health access is a core element of health equity—an important topic for Sg2 and our parent company, Vizient. So on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Senior Consultant Nikita Arora and Director Andrew Rebhan help us explore digital equity: challenges and solutions, the populations impacted the most, and where organizations can start for digital equity improvement.   We are always excited to...

We at Sg2 tend to nerd out a bit with breaking health care news, so when we heard about the new approach to collaboration and scale that Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger Health are attempting with Risant Health, Sg2 Perspectives decided to invite some of our experts to share their ideas on what this means for the industry and what Risant Health may do next. Sg2 Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, a...

Health equity continues to be an important focus despite today’s health care climate that has many health systems looking inward at operations. So on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Senior Consultant Rheanna Henson and Principal Karyl Kopaskie, PhD, discuss how organizations are tackling health equity alongside short-term challenges and incorporating data into their efforts, as well as how they’...