Edge Perspectives

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, hosts Trevor DaRin, Tori Richie and Jayme Zage, PhD, take a look back at their favorite quotes from our 2023 podcast episodes, discussing why they resonated and how well the quotes connect to themes we’ve heard in Sg2 member conversations. Trevor, Tori and Jayme dive into quotes around care redesign and innovation, AI, and the balancing acts that traditional provider...

These days, health care organizations are focusing more on senior care strategy, so this week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin chats with Sg2 Associate Consultant Rima Bhula and Senior Consultant Liz Hajek about how health systems around the country are tackling senior care. Rima and Liz discuss digital solutions, community partnerships and designing senior-friendly EDs, as well as health sy...

This week’s Sg2 Perspectives episode is a special one that brings us back to our Sg2 roots—tracking technology and innovation—and dedicated to the memory of our colleague, Henry Soch, who was a tech guru, an innovator and a healthcare futurist, and who also frequently attended RSNA. Host Jayme Zage, PhD, is joined by Sg2 Senior Consultant Gurmeet Bawa and Principal Chad Giese and Vizient Director,...

Every year, Sg2 builds out our five-year Insurance Coverage Estimates forecasts and related content, so this week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin joins Sg2 Principal Brian Esser and Senior Director Tori Richie to talk about how we did with last year’s projections and how we're adjusting the next year's five-year projections. Trevor, Brian and Tori share the stories behind our forecasts for...

This year marked the 9th year for Sg2’s annual Children’s Hospital Affinity Group Meeting, cohosted by Michigan Medicine, and for the first time held in combination with our AMC Summit. So on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Tori Richie is joined by Sg2 Consultant Dionne Dela Cruz, Senior Director Rhae Ana Gamber and Principal Karyl Kopaskie, PhD, for a debrief of the event. Dionne, Rhae and Kar...

Sg2 is encouraging health systems to think like investors, due to the fact that there are more outside dollars, players and influence in the investment space than in the traditional health care provider space. So on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin is joined by Sg2 Senior Director Casi Roethler to talk about why this is an important focus. Casi details the internal and external forc...

On this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Tori Richie chats with Sg2 Director Andrew Rebhan about the digital health landscape—where the industry is today, and where we think it may be going. Andrew discusses payment and policy, health equity, solutions for workforce challenges, and how organizations can get started in the digital health space.   We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from ou...

Sg2 hosts an annual AMC Summit for our academic medical center members to share successes, collaborate and inspire each other.  In this episode host Jayme Zage debriefs on the 20th AMC Summit, co-hosted by the University of Michigan, with National Vice President Mike Humphrey, Principal Erika Johnson, and Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD.    The key theme this year was the unique politics of ba...

Sg2 continues to hear from members about capacity issues impacting the ability to capture growth, and while there are many different approaches to addressing the capacity crunch, the care at home model is one we believe can have long-term impact. So on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, PhD, is joined by Sg2 Senior Consultant Nikita Arora and Principal Eric Lam to talk about insights g...

We at Sg2 get asked about health care workforce trends quite a bit from our members, so we recently published a report that dove into what the future of the health care workforce may look like. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin chats with two of the contributors to that report, Sg2 Content Director Pam Dolan and Senior Director Janelle Kwan, about their research. Pam and Janelle dis...

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...