Edge Perspectives

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 [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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 us for a fun, speculative conversation around what they believe will happen—and what they believe will not—as well as how the health care industry may respond.

Learn more about the new Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger partnership in our blog post Risant Health, a New Disrupter on the Scene?

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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 listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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 always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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 population health initiatives in their own communities.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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 for these programs.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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 Charlotte discuss near-term vs long-term consumer strategies, cross-team collaboration to accomplish customer-focused initiatives and how organizations can prioritize customer strategy work.

Learn more about employing a customer mindset for future viability in Sg2’s recent blog post.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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 meet customer needs.

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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 always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

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 [email protected], find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.