Edge Perspectives

This week, Mark Larson, Principal Sg2 Intelligence, and Steven Lucio, Senior Principal in Vizient Pharmacy Solutions, join us to discuss pharmacy strategy and how it’s not just about cost savings anymore. Instead, pharmacy leaders are now starting to look across the System of CARE for new coordination opportunities and cost-effective sites, as well as how to operate pharmacy like its own service line. 

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.

As the population and the economy look toward post-pandemic recovery, health systems must contend with the challenges of payer mix volatility. In this week's episode of Sg2 Perspectives, hosts Kelly Richard and Trevor DaRin, along with Associate Principal, Brian Esser and Director, Tori Richie, discuss the economic trends driving Sg2's 5-year Insurance Coverage Forecast.

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.

Last week, Sg2 Perspectives took a look back at 2020 to review the health care industry’s major learnings and how provider organizations are applying them. This week, the same expert team - Bill Woodson, Jennifer O’Connor and Henry Soch - returns to provide you with some bold predictions for the health care industry in 2021.

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 this week’s episode, Sg2’s Bill Woodson, Jennifer O’Connor and Henry Soch discuss the health care industry’s major learnings from 2020 and how leading health care provider organizations are applying those learnings to better prepare themselves for 2021 and beyond.

Sg2 members can register here for our annual The Year Ahead webinar on January 13 to learn about the unavoidable forces impacting the health care industry in 2021.

COVID-19 continues to reveal existing gaps in the health care system; however, academic medical centers (AMCs) are leading the way in closing those gaps, as they increasingly turn to partnerships to serve populations with needs growing in depth and scope. In this week’s episode of Sg2 Perspectives, the Sg2 Intelligence Team’s Justin Cassidy, PhD, Director of Medicine, and Kelly Richard, Associate Principal, discuss the critical role of partnerships for AMCs as they evolve care delivery in the midst of the pandemic and beyond.

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the economy, and health systems—despite serving a crucial clinical role—are not immune from its financial impact. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Kelly and Trevor interview Tori Richie, Director on Sg2’s Intelligence team, about COVID-19’s effect on unemployment and insurance coverage, as the 3 of us play the role of experts in discussing the economic trends driving market-level payer mix.

In this week’s episode, learn the results of Vizient's latest consumer pulse survey from Mark Larson, Principal, Sg2 Intelligence, as well as Dr. Tom Villanueva, practicing internal medicine physician and Associate Vice President of Clinical Resources at Vizient, who will also share how patient preferences and expectations have changed in his practice.

Sg2 members can read more of our consumerism research here

Andrea Leslie, Regional President of four rural hospitals in Michigan's Spectrum Health System, shares their unique rural challenges and the creative solutions they devised to keep their community and staff safe and healthy.

The Sg2 team of policy experts, Valinda Rutledge (former hospital CEO and a leader of CMMI) and Leslie Kamel, unpack the proposed payment changes for virtual health and Chris Pagano, Senior Director of Virtual Health, explain the strategic implications for health systems.

The Sg2 team of policy experts, Valinda Rutledge (former hospital CEO and a leader of CMMI) and Ryota Terada, Director Orthopedics and Policy, unpack the proposed payment changes around site of care and Chad Giese, Associate Principal Cardiovascular, explores the varying impact it will have across service lines.