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The recent expiration of the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver introduced a new kind of uncertainty for hospitals that have reimagined acute care delivery. While the waiver’s future depends on ongoing federal discussions, the question facing health systems is not political. It is strategic: how do we sustain progress when policy pauses? An Innovation in Pause, Not in Question The hospital a...

Editor's note: Tammy Tiller-Hewitt, FACHE, CEO, Tiller-Hewitt HealthCare Strategies, contributed to this post. Imagine being able to report that you discovered an opportunity to generate $26 million on average in year-one incremental net revenue. This kind of opportunity comes from high-value referrals based on your health system's current facility footprint and service lines. You can tap into y...

The recent release of Sg2’s 2025 10-year Impact of Change® National Demand Forecast is a culmination of analysis encompassing numerous factors affecting health care utilization. These factors range from the epidemiological impacts driving chronic disease prevalence to policy changes influencing access and reimbursement to the latest innovations in AI, medical devices and pharmacy. Sg2 an...

Michael Ash, MD, is the president and chief operating officer for Nebraska Medicine, based in Omaha, Nebraska. Q: You’ve had quite a career—starting as an internal medicine physician, moving into health IT at Cerner (now Oracle), and serving as a chief transformation officer before stepping into your COO role. How have these experiences shaped your leadership approach? A: I've always been interes...

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...

Editor's note: Hannah Murphy, Lead, Analytics & Insights and Alyssa Harris, Associate Principal, Analytics & Insights also contributed to this blog post. Welcome to the inaugural post of our Pediatric Research at Vizient blog series. This series highlights some of our latest findings in pediatric medicine and incorporates analysis leveraging the Vizient® Clinical Data Base to supp...

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...

Disrupters have accelerated their presence, filling access gaps across the continuum with lower-cost, consumer-friendly options. What started as niche convenience has become a competing infrastructure. Increasingly, traditional systems are adopting similar strategies, including scaling ambulatory footprints, integrating payer partnerships and digitizing access. The market is less divided between ...

Indirect spend and purchased services─IT, facilities, support services, and more─now represent around 20-25% of a health system’s total spend, according to Vizient Supply Analytics data. With clinical margins tightening, leaders must work to control these costs. Several challenges can make that difficult. Fragmentation and silos: Overlapping vendors and inconsistent contracts reduce lev...

  Diane Maas is the chief strategy and digital transformation officer of Beacon Health System, based in South Bend, Indiana. Q: Let’s start by learning more about you—what’s your background and what brought you to your current role at Beacon Health? I wrote my thesis in college on the HMO industry, which led to my first job in health care, working for Blue Cross Blue Shi...