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Despite headwinds, private equity (PE) continues to make strong inroads into health care. PE investment will remain a significant force for the foreseeable future, which represents both an opportunity and a challenge for health systems. Although some see PE as an unwelcome intrusion that complicates physician alignment and service line growth, forward-thinking health systems are leveraging PE par...

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...

Hospital system chief financial officers (CFOs) face an increasingly complex financial landscape, one shaped by regulatory shifts, technological advancements and evolving patient expectations. Here are 3 top takeaways to effectively navigate in 2025. ► Pharmacy Optimization: With systems reporting 25% of revenue tied to pharmacy operations, this area represents a significant revenue opportunity fo...

Children’s hospital leaders have a full plate in 2025—managing the challenges and opportunities presented by innovative therapeutics, emerging technologies and artificial intelligence, policy uncertainties, regionalization and subspecialty shortages—the list goes on and on. To help you focus and cut through the noise, Sg2 experts have identified four top priority strategic action...

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...

Did you know that patients—who know you, trust you and chose you—are quietly walking out the door to your competitors? In today’s market, it’s rare for a health system to capture more than 50% of a patient’s share of care. Even among systems with loyal patients and high-functioning teams, more than half of the revenue opportunity is silently slipping away—undete...

Since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022, we’ve been busy discussing with health care stakeholders how to best plan for and use AI across their organizations, from supporting clinical decision-making to reducing administrative burdens. What I didn’t plan for was having nearly half of these discussions focus on supply chain. But perhaps this shouldn’t be a surprise—wh...

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...

Understanding the Transition: ACO REACH Replaces Current Direct Contracting Model On February 24, 2022, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announced the ACO REACH (Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health) Model, with an application period ending April 22, 2022. ACO REACH will replace the current Direct Contracting Model (DC) on January 1, 2023, as the highest level of...

In our previous post, we discussed health inequities in our current health care landscape, providing some examples of how the negative impacts of social determinants of health can contribute to undesirable health outcomes and lead to significant health disparities. Now, we would like to focus on how health systems can be more aware of these disparities and turn that awareness into action. Health e...