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 out the Sg2 blog post Generative AI: Seven Steps Health Care Companies Can Take Now to Prepare . We ar...
Oct 11, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 190
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 where disrupters are experiencing success. Read Joe Maher’s blog post: Five Observations From 2023 Seco...
Sep 27, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 188
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 and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com , find us on Twitter as @Sg...
Sep 20, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 187
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 how it’s changing the finances around therapeutics, the impact of new Alzheimer disease therapeutics ...
Sep 13, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 186
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 feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com , find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCa...
Sep 06, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 185
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 perspectives that resonated, along with those that were a bit more challenging. We are always excited to ge...
Aug 30, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 184
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 well as how Sg2 helps its members tackle these large-scale projects. We are always excited to get i...
Aug 23, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 183
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 executive vice president of innovation and strategy; Amy Dewane, vice president care delivery system growt...
Aug 16, 2023•14 min•Season 1Ep. 182
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 reimbursement, obesity and care management, and equitable access to weight management services and medication...
Aug 09, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 181
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 and other service lines, and shares some of the strategic questions our members are asking. We are alw...
Aug 02, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 180
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 line structure and organization and how those impact strategic planning. Cory, Janelle and Trevor share...
Jul 26, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 179
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, and how organizations can get started with their customer loyalty strategy. Read more about customer-d...
Jul 19, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 178
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 public health emergency, the role of AI, and how organizations can keep moving forward with their digi...
Jul 12, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 177
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 on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare , or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn....
Jul 05, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 176
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—and share some topics our experts and guests will be digging into during the event, such as consumeri...
Jun 28, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 175
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 partner differently across its community. We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our lis...
Jun 28, 2023•14 min•Season 1Ep. 174
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 are getting through these challenging times. We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our...
Jun 21, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 173
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 Director Tori Richie, to discuss new forecast capabilities, as well as underlying forecast themes, inclu...
Jun 14, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 172
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 service line strategy. Chad, Cory and Stephanie tackle consumerism, systemness and ambulatory shift of ...
Jun 07, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 171
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 get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com , find us on T...
May 31, 2023•19 min•Season 1Ep. 170
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, and value-based care experts Associate Principal Joe Maher and Associate Principal Bill Ringwood join...
May 23, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 169
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’re taking this work to the next level. We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our list...
May 17, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 168
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 transformation and the optimization of operations, along with successful—and promising—investments. We are alway...
May 10, 2023•19 min•Season 1Ep. 167
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 leveraged community partnerships and engaged caregivers, and how organizations can get started driving popul...
May 03, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 166
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’s CV programs (eg, cardio obstetrics and midlife multidisciplinary) and creating the business case ...
Apr 27, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 165
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 Principal Charlotte Brown-Zalewa to talk about the new growth mindset of customer strategy. Jon and Charlot...
Apr 19, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 164
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, including the usage of artificial intelligence and the need for health systems to embrace innovation and mee...
Apr 12, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 163
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 optimize their service line workforce, but also how they can attract and retain their staff. We are a...
Apr 05, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 162
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 prepare. We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2pe...
Mar 29, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 161
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 growth. We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2...
Mar 22, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 160
