Edge Perspectives

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’...

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...