The EDGE^® system provides analytics, intelligence, education and expert support to help organizations successfully grow volumes and capture market share. It focuses on the areas that are core to your future success, including business planning and demand forecasting, leadership and workforce solutions, operational design and infrastructure, and market performance.

The EDGE is built on Sg2's Impact of Change^®, the industry’s only disease-based demand forecast. This allows executives to look beyond payments alone and plan in a more clinically meaningful way. By starting with powerful trends in the prevalence and incidence of underlying health conditions, the disease-based model offers the power of site-of-care neutrality—linking both inpatient and outpatient settings. The Impact of Change model incorporates pertinent impact factors that make it much more accurate than traditional methods of projecting future needs based on population growth alone. These include epidemiology, economics and payment, innovation and technology, potentially avoidable admissions and Sg2 Systems of CARE™.

• Disease-Based 10-Year Demand Forecast
  The online Impact of Change disease-based forecasting tool provides analytically flexible 10-year inpatient and outpatient forecasts that can be viewed by CARE Families (diseases), CARE Groups (procedures), Patient Types (occasional, elective, perpetual, complex critical), service lines and MS-DRG payments.
• Sg2 Technology Evaluation and Planning (STEP™) Online
  This analytical tool evaluates your organization’s current technology adoption patterns and helps prioritize future investments.
• Expert-Led Training and Events
  In-person and Web-based events provide the opportunity for your organization's team of change agents to learn from Sg2’s seasoned team of MDs, RNs, PhDs and business analysts.
• Roundtables and Peer Networking
  Peer-to-peer networking and information exchange provide the opportunity to discuss common challenges and learn from other Sg2 Edge users.
• Resources That Drive Results
  To maximize performance, the Edge system provides access to a continuously expanding library of intelligence and resources, including in-depth publications, 4-page reviews of innovations and leading practices, and expert-written Web posts.
• Ongoing Support
  A Service Account Manager supports your daily requests for information and guides you to appropriate Sg2 resources.