Edge Perspectives

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Tori Richie talks to two Vizient consulting leads, Michael Lutkus and Amit Sharma, about why community hospital optimization is important for health systems. Michael and Amit cover some of the barriers to optimization (eg, M&A, care shifts), along with some strategies health systems can pursue, including engaging in change management work.   We are always ex...

Recently, there’s been a lot of news around closures related to obstetrics services. So on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, PhD, has a conversation with Sg2 OB experts Consultant Dionne Dela Cruz and Fellow Jeremy Miller, MD around the challenges and trends of obstetrics care. Dionne and Jeremy discuss options for organizations to maintain or close OB units and the impact of closures...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin is joined by Associate Principal Joe Maher from Vizient's value transformation and payer provider alignment team. Joe is our expert on the payer side of health care, so in this episode, he’ll cover payers (eg, new entrants and models, partnership opportunities for health systems) and health plans (eg, Medicare Advantage, care delivery capabilities),...

Sg2 continuously monitors the margins and financial resiliency of our members across the country, so on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, PhD, talks to Sg2 Principal Brian Esser, Senior Consultant Sushma Narra and Director Ryota Terada about the latest iteration of Sg2’s Economic Index, which helps organizations anticipate where future financial headwinds and tailwinds may develop. Br...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’re excited to announce the first of our episodes we like to call “The Bill Woodson Show.” For these special editions, our host will be none other than Sg2 Senior Principal Bill Woodson, who will chat with Sg2 experts and health care industry thought leaders about top-of-mind topics in the health care space. For this episode, Bill is joined by John Becker, SVP, Sal...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, PhD, digs into post-acute care services with Sg2 Consultant Gurleen Sahota and Senior Consultants Nikita Arora and Rachael Zirkelbach, who share some insights from our recent post-acute care member survey. Gurleen, Nikita and Rachael discuss workforce and capacity challenges, telehealth utilization and policies, what to expect from the 2024 Impact of...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin talks consumer innovation with Sg2 Principals Yelena Bouaziz and Laurie Dowd—what members are asking and how health care providers can be more consumer centric. Yelena and Laurie cover the long-term vision for consumer innovation and where health systems are making progress, as well as how they’re addressing leakage.   We are always excited to get i...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin is joined by Vizient VP, Member Networks, Michael Busch and Sg2 Principal Brian Esser to get an understanding of how CFOs are looking at 2024—where is there hope, where is there opportunity? Mike and Brian talk about where top performers are finding growth, the importance of data and analytics, and how CSOs can pitch effectively to CFOs.   We are al...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin gives Sg2 Director and digital health expert Andrew Rebhan space to share five often-said, often-heard cliches about digital health, and why Andrew wants to move away from using them. Andrew discusses cliches for telehealth, AI, big tech disrupters, “shiny new objects” and digital transformation.     We are always excited to get ideas and feedback f...

Ever wonder what happens when the podcast host is put in the hot seat? Check out this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, where host Trevor DaRin is interviewed by Sg2 Senior Director Janelle Kwan! Both Trevor and Janelle have researched rural care continuums—which Sg2 calls Systems of CARE—so today, they discuss rural health systems, including workforce challenges, strategic partnerships and leaning in on d...

Every year in January, Sg2 provides its perspectives for the year to come in our popular webinar called The Year Ahead. So on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin is joined by webinar presenters Sg2 Principal Brian Esser, Senior Director Casi Roethler and Senior Principal Bill Woodson as they share their year-ahead thoughts with our podcast listeners. Brian, Casi and Bill discuss how fi...

Each year during this time, the Sg2 Intelligence team puts their heads down and develops our proprietary Impact of Change® (IoC) Forecast for the new year. So on this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, PhD, is joined by Sg2 Principal Chad Giese and Senior Director Tori Richie to talk all things IoC. Chad and Tori share what Sg2 is focusing on for our 2024 forecast and how innovation fits in...

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin sits down with Sg2 Senior Director Casi Roethler to talk all things primary care: what they're seeing, what they're hearing, what data they're tracking, and what may change about primary care in the near- and long-term. Trevor and Casi touch on the consumer shift, employed vs independent physicians, and what the primary care landscape could look lik...

Sg2 is frequently asked to talk about AI with our members, so this week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin is joined by Sg2 Director Andrew Rebhan to discuss the hot topic of bias in AI in the health care space. Andrew outlines some of the challenges of AI—how bias can affect health system health equity work, how to mitigate AI bias—as well as some of the positives, such as how AI can improve...

Over the past five years, mental health and substance use disorder have become top of mind, along with a lessening of the associated stigma. So this week on Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, PhD, is joined by Sg2 Consultant Caleb Bentley and Director Stephanie Snider, who lead our research and trends and our forecasts for behavioral health services, to talk about the behavioral health care space....

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...