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Direct-to-employer healthcare offerings benefit from proof-of-concept, and often your employees can provide an excellent test group. As health systems pursue employer engagement through direct-to-employer healthcare solutions, two of the first questions health systems marketing their services to local employers should expect are: Have you done this with your own employees? and How did it go? Organ...

Legacy healthcare, a domain once perceived as an unassailable fortress, now finds itself besieged by unconventional adversaries. Retail powerhouses, tech titans, venture capitalists and insurance providers are collectively reshaping the healthcare terrain. The expansion of these 'game changers,' propelled by mergers and acquisitions (M&As), appears limitless, showing no regard for geographical...

The Fairview Health Services Chief Strategy Officer outlines how a successful, data-driven strategy must align with an organization’s strengths, deliver positive margins, and enhance care quality, safety and patient experience. Sameer Badlani, Chief Strategy Officer at Fairview Health Services, believes building better health care is more about what you shouldn’t do than what you sho...

In today's health care landscape, data has become the currency that drives informed decision-making. You can’t go a day without hearing bold statements from companies promising revolutionary data that will drive "unprecedented precision" and "transformative intelligence.” At Sg2, a Vizient company, we sift through these glossy guarantees so that you can understand the gap between what...

Mikki Clancy is the chief digital and information officer for Premier Health, based in Dayton, Ohio. Q: Let’s get this out of the way: artificial intelligence—exciting or overrated? A: I believe it's exciting, but in a different way than most people think. For me, it's one of several layers of tools that are available to us to help our staff work more efficiently. So that's exciting b...

Maria Toler is the founding and managing partner of SteelSky Ventures, based in Atlanta. Q: Let’s start by learning a bit about your background. How did your career path evolve and what led you to start SteelSky Ventures? A: I’m an entrepreneur to my core. I launched my first company, Collegeboxes, as a college student, and it was eventually acquired by U-Haul. That experience c...

Sg2 is tracking the top four areas in which innovation will most significantly impact orthopedic care over the next five years. Health systems must stay abreast of these advances to make informed technology investment decisions and seamlessly integrate new technology into their orthopedic offerings. 1. Robotics Use varies significantly across organizations, especially as procedures shift outpatien...

This year’s Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics Update: A Report of US and Global Data From the AHA highlighted several striking trends. Released in January, the report underscores ongoing challenges and disparities in stroke care. Source: Martin S et al. Circulation. 2025. What does this mean for stroke care? Greater emphasis on targeted prevention among high-risk populations will be impe...

Increasing demand is making it difficult for provider systems’ cardiovascular service lines to maintain access for patients across the care continuum. Growth is fueled not only by the aging of the population but also a concerning rise in disease onset and acute events in patients younger than 45. Here at the start of 2025, a couple of areas have bubbled to the top of systems’ CV priori...

Hospital at home programs have been gradually increasing in number in recent years, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the shift to home health and virtual care greatly accelerated. Half of families are more likely to choose in-home care for their loved ones now than they were prior to the pandemic, and almost half of physicians use virtual health technologies to treat patients. Now that home is ...