For the first time on Sg2 Perspectives, we welcome two members of Sg2’s Client Service Delivery team, Principal, Sg2 Client Relations, Alison Wishnick and Client Relations Director Katie Leo. In this episode, Alison and Katie talk to us about what they’re hearing from Sg2 member strategic planning and executive teams regarding their priorities for 2022, including a return to long-term strategic and capital planning and utilizing data to leverage value and inform their health equity strategies. W...
Jan 19, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 100
This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we take you inside Sg2’s 2021 Children’s Hospital Group Affinity Meeting, providing audio from our Children’s Hospital Enterprise Member Panel. Facilitated by Sg2 Principal Rebecca Limestall and Principal and Medical Director of Quality and Strategy Madeleine McDowell, MD, FAAP, guest panelists Ashlie Hilbun, EdD, MSW, CFRE, FACHE, from Arkansas Children’s Hospital; Divya Joshi, MD, MMM, FAAP, FACPE, from Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital; Satyan Lakshminrusimh...
Jan 12, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 99
This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we’re focusing on health system boards: what they are focused on right now, as well as what they may be focused on in the future. Sg2 Principal Jennifer O’Connor, FACHE, and Principal Jeff Moser join us to discuss how board interactions have changed over the past two years; the current hot topics at board updates (eg, workforce, innovation, capital planning, growth); and what boards might be thinking about in the year ahead (eg, consumerism, M&A, population hea...
Jan 05, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 98
In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Director and podcast host Trevor DaRin, Associate Principal Brian Esser and Director Tori Richie dive into Sg2’s Insurance Coverage Estimates, an analytic tool built by Sg2 to help our members not only understand what their market looks like from a payer enrollment perspective but also explore the local dynamics that might change those enrollment patterns in the future. Trevor, Brian and Tori discuss Medicare, Medicaid and commercial health insurance, as well...
Dec 22, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Some of Sg2’s earliest members were academic medical centers (AMCs), so we have always made it a priority to engage with them and understand their challenges—which is what our Sg2 AMC Summit is all about. This week, Sg2 General Manager, AMCs, and National Vice President, Client Relations, Michael Humphrey and Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, join Sg2 Perspectives talk about the biggest takeaways from our 18th annual AMC Summit, which took place this past October. Mike and Justin discuss pres...
Dec 15, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Today on Sg2 Perspectives we’re all about ambulatory strategy, and we’re approaching it from two different angles. First, Sg2 Principal Brianna Motley and Associate Principal Eric Lam discuss the Ambulatory Strategy Accelerator program led by Sg2’s parent company Vizient, which is a fast-paced, interactive program designed to not only help member organizations narrow down their ambulatory strategic priorities but also provide them with a collaborative community to share their learnings and chall...
Dec 08, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Most health systems have been struggling with workforce issues for months, with the larger trends reverberating through contract labor and vice versa. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we are joined by VP of Operations Melanie Bell, MSN, RN, CENP, and SVP David Hermann from Vaya Workforce Solutions who share their insights on the current contract labor landscape, the successes and challenges of deploying contract nursing at scale, and what contract labor may look like in the near-term as well as lo...
Dec 01, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 94
With the pandemic, every industry is experiencing a change in consumer expectations and how consumers interact with their products. Health care has some similarities to other industries, as well as some unique differences, so we recently reached out to health care consumers to ask how their expectations and preferences have changed over the past 18 months. In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Principal Mark Larson joins host Trevor DaRin to break down the survey results and share insights on our...
Nov 17, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Last week, Sg2 held an expanded edition of Executive Summit, our leading member conference focused on health system enterprise strategy. Today’s Sg2 Perspectives features audio from three of our guest panelists—Dr David Carlson, SVP, Provider Enterprise, and Chief Provider Officer, MultiCare (WA); Mikki Clancy, Chief Digital Officer, Premier Health (OH); and Edward Rafalski, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, BayCare Health System (FL)—who shared their organizations’ digital str...
Nov 10, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Sg2 has gotten many questions from members this year on care shifting to the home, so this week on Sg2 Perspectives, Vizient Senior Director of Pharmacy Services Carina Dolan and Senior Director of Pharmacy Consulting Brian Hardy and Sg2 Associate Principal and cancer service line lead Cory Jones join us to discuss the shifting of infusions from hospital and clinic-based campuses to the home, from factors causing the current accelerated shift pace to regulatory and safety concerns and patient sa...
Nov 03, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 91
This week, Sg2 Principal Tawnya Bosko, DHA, and Sg2 Associate Principal and cancer service line lead Cory Jones join Sg2 Perspectives for the final episode in our unofficial System of CARE series. Tawnya and Cory take a comprehensive look at incentives and how they drive how the System of CARE is used, including fee-for-service environments vs value-based arrangements, the radiation oncology model and how health systems can evaluate incentives in terms of utilization impact across the System of ...
Oct 27, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 90
This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Senior Director Justin Cassidy, PhD, joins Trevor DaRin to interview FHN Chief Operating Officer/Chief Nursing Officer Kathryn Martinez, MSNRN, FACHE, on the health system’s integrated approach to care transitions—including making the case for ROI and setting up community liaison programs to assist with culturally competent care—and its success with remote patient monitoring technology, from data management and involvement of complex care managers to partnering...
Oct 20, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 89
This week, we get back to our service line conversations as Sg2 Perspectives welcomes Sg2 Director Ryota Terada and Vizient Consulting Director Joe Tomaro, who join us to discuss all things orthopedics. Ryota and Joe dig into the landscape for hip fractures and hip and shoulder replacement; the procedural shift to ambulatory settings; and health system opportunities for cost savings and partnerships, as well as how to understand the margins. We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from o...
Oct 13, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 88
This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Chief Product Officer and cofounder of AVIA Eric Jensen and Sg2 Principal Brianna Motley do a status check on the progress health systems have made in using digital health technology to serve their patients and discuss the challenges to digital health transformation strategy and execution, as well as take a look into the future of digital health regarding reimbursement, scalability and change management. We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our list...
Oct 06, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 87
This week, Sg2 Perspectives sounds a bit different—we are sharing audio from our health system leader discussion panel during the Sg2 Executive Summit July Webinar Series because our guest panelists touched on two key topics that many health systems are currently focusing on: workforce and how to approach health equity. Listen in as Dr. Alisahah Cole, System Vice President, Population Health and Innovation and Policy, at CommonSpirit Health; Tracy Gates, Chief Operating Officer at Cayuga Medical...
Sep 29, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 86
This week, we continue our series of Sg2 Perspectives episodes that dive into the details of health system service lines. In this episode, cardiovascular experts Sg2’s Associate Principal Chad Giese and Director Josh Aaker, PhD, and Vizient’s Associate Principal Doug Beinborn join us to talk CV technologies, including key learnings and challenges organizations should know and be thinking about for electroporation and renal denervation; using artificial intelligence to identify patients at risk f...
Sep 22, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 85
This week begins a series of Sg2 Perspectives episodes that dive into the details of health system service lines, and in this episode, we focus on the landscape for spine care with neurosciences and spine experts Sg2 Senior Consulting Director Katherine Zentner and Vizient Consulting Director Patrick Vega. Spine care continues to be high priority for many of our members, but they’re facing pressures from a lot of different angles: payers, employers, patients, physicians and beyond. Kate and Patr...
Sep 15, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 84
When CMS finalized the hospital price transparency rule in 2019, Turquoise Health saw the potential for price transparency to really shift the health care industry. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, CEO of Turquoise Health Chris Severn joins Sg2’s Brian Esser and Kelly Richard to talk about health system strategy in price transparency, from recognizing the opportunity to work more effectively with payers to capitalizing on the benefits of compliance, such as driving more volume to your hospital. We...
Sep 08, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 83
As the cost of insuring employee populations steadily rises on an annual basis, employers are looking to new business models to bend the cost curve. On this week’s episode, we talk with Vizient’s Jim Reilly, Senior Principal and Jeff Hayes, Executive Director of Direct-to-Employer solutions at Vizient, and Sg2’s Brian Esser, Associate Principal and expert in value-based care and employer health. We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectiv...
Sep 01, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Early in the pandemic, Tampa General Hospital decided to bifurcate the organization so it could prioritize its COVID-19 response but, at the same time, continue to focus on strategy execution. This week, CEO John Couris joins Sg2 Perspectives to talk to Bill Woodson about how Tampa General Hospital has continued to expand its System of CARE and used innovation to respond to COVID-19, as well as what it means to be in the “care coordination business.” We are always excited to get ideas and feedba...
Aug 25, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 81
As we globally contend with the Delta variant, it’s become clear that COVID-19 is a moving target. This week, Vizient’s Associate Vice President, Pharmacy Sourcing and Program Services, Azra Behlim, PharmD, MBA, joins Sg2 Perspectives to help us understand vaccines and virus behavior, sharing her extensive knowledge on COVID-19 variants, the occurrence of breakthrough cases and the development of new vaccines, as well as how organizations need to remain nimble and strategize in creative, innovat...
Aug 18, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Sg2 and the Vizient family of companies are striving to build our workplace, as well as our business and our communities, into a place where people not only feel safe but also feel they belong and can be their authentic selves. It’s difficult work—and it becomes even more complicated for health systems when it goes beyond employees to encompass health equity for the patients they serve. In this week’s episode of Sg2 Perspectives, we’re joined by Monica Davy, Vizient’s Chief Culture, Diversity an...
Aug 11, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Are new entrants to the health care market really disrupting the health care landscape? Or are they just “changing the game” for physicians and, ultimately, consumers? Join us for this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, as host Trevor DaRin, Sg2 Director, becomes our guest expert! He breaks down disrupters vs game changers in the health care industry, how the game changers—big tech, payers, new physician group models, retail transactional care—can impact health system care continuums and what organization...
Aug 04, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 78
In talking to Sg2 members nationwide, one thing is clear: ambulatory strategy is currently top of mind, whether it’s due to disruption by new entrants in the health care space or the variability of specific procedure shifts. In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, we welcome Sg2 Associate Principal Chad Giese, Director Josh Aaker and Principal Mike Strilesky as we dive into Part 2 of our unofficial System of CARE series to discuss ambulatory optimization strategy from a health system enterprise perspec...
Jul 28, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 77
During the pandemic, many organizations spent time scrutinizing the health of their own systems and changing their strategies and priority lists, as well as asking themselves “What do we do in the next 12 to 18 months—and beyond?” This week, Sg2 Perspectives welcomes Sg2 Senior Principal Bill Woodson as he provides a sneak peek into our upcoming 2021 Executive Summit Webinar Series (starting Tuesday, July 27) and some of the biggest trends shaping our perspective this year, such as near-term gro...
Jul 21, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Henry Soch has been an Sg2 institution for 15.5 years, leading our work in new technology and innovation in the health care space. We are sad to say that Henry is retiring, but this week on Sg2 Perspectives, we got the rare opportunity to chat with him about his illustrious 40-year career in the health care industry. Henry shares the most impactful technological changes he witnessed firsthand, the lessons he learned—and how we can apply those lessons to how we think about influential technology ...
Jul 14, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 75
As the COVID-19 pandemic impacted physician office revenue, many believed health systems would acquire smaller practices. While this did occur, there has also been a reshaping of physician–health system relationships, along with the appearance of alternative paths for physician groups. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2’s Principal Jennifer O’Connor and Associate Principal Michael Lutkus dig into the state of physician groups—from disrupters in the market and private equity investments to streng...
Jul 07, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Previously on Sg2 Perspectives, we discussed our care continuum framework—the System of CARE—and how health systems can attract and retain patients within their care continuum. This week, we shift that discussion to focus on patient access strategy for academic medical centers (AMCs), as Sg2’s Intelligence Director and Medicine Lead Justin Cassidy, PhD, and Director of Strategic Analytics Rahul Gandhi join us to talk about how AMCs traditionally think about patient access channels, key challenge...
Jun 30, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 73
After interviewing CEO of Advent Health Terry Shaw on the health system’s new financial and clinical realities earlier this year, we realized we wanted to expand on some of the themes from that conversation. So this week Advent Health’s Corporate Vice President of Strategic Planning Josef Ghosn joins Sg2 Perspectives, along with special guest Bill Woodson, to dig deeper into the system’s accelerated priorities (eg, consumerism), its three-phase strategy development process—formulation, execution...
Jun 23, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 72
In larger health systems, finance and strategy teams tend to speak different languages and work more in parallel than in tandem. In this week’s episode of Sg2 Perspectives, Yale New Haven Health’s CFO Vincent Tammaro and CSO Matthew Comerford discuss how their two teams partner to drive strategic planning and focus the organization on growth initiatives, as well as “the art of team play” that goes beyond just strategy and finance to incorporate a true team effort to work on behalf of the health ...
Jun 16, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 71
