In the News: September 8-14, 2016
By Sg2 TeamSg2 is dedicated to helping our clients interpret the latest news and trends in health care. Below you’ll find our analysis of this week’s key industry headlines, along with links...
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Sg2 is dedicated to helping our clients interpret the latest news and trends in health care. Below you’ll find our analysis of this week’s key industry headlines, along with links...
At the Sg2 AMC Summit 2016, Sg2 and cohosts BJC HealthCare and St Louis Children’s Hospital welcomed 75 attendees, representing 30 organizations from across the US, to discuss the implications...
What consumer doesn’t love a good price war? Savvy shoppers have been the beneficiaries of ferocious pricing wars among airlines, wireless carriers and big box retailers just to name a...
For too long, health systems have exploited only a fraction of the potential value available through economies of scale. Scale historically has amounted strictly to the financial levers of reduced...
Sg2 joined more than 4,300 health care professionals at last month’s International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles, CA, where sessions and preconference symposia offered something for everyone. Following game-changing data...
Cardiovascular (CV) services remain on the forefront for data-driven decision making in health care, but with CV disease still the leading cause of mortality in the US, there is much...
Are you being disrupted? Are you disrupting yourself, your market or your competitors? Are you asking the critical “what if” questions that will guide your future? If not, you should...
Similar to our forecast for adults, Sg2 projects a downward trend in inpatient pediatric services for both children’s hospitals and non–children’s hospitals. However these trends will vary significantly by disease...
Rumors and announcements of health plan mergers and acquisitions have only accelerated discussions among health system executives about how much more provider consolidation is likely to occur over the next...
Each year at Sg2, we debut the latest health care projections from our Impact of Change® (IoC) demand forecast. Growth trends for pediatrics differ from adults in some important ways....
During Sg2’s 2015 Executive Summit meetings, we have been asking health care executives to provide some perspective on how their organizations make decisions today. We ask attendees to rate, on...
Each year at Sg2, we debut the latest health care projections from our Impact of Change® (IoC) demand forecast. The transition to value-based care is well on its way, and...
As we slowly make headway toward spring, chances are good that your organization is fully entrenched in planning and board retreat season. These planning meetings can be energizing but they...
Making the wrong technology adoption decisions not only wastes precious capital but can hinder your organization’s abilities to evolve in our rapidly changing industry. Sg2’s 2014 Pulse survey, our annual...
Alignment with generalist obstetricians and gynecologists (ob/gyns) has traditionally been relegated to the back burner. There are two reasons for this. First, in the fee-for-service environment, OB has little or...
Plan. Execute. Analyze. Repeat. If you watched the Super Bowl earlier this month, you saw this done in real time over and over again. Coaches call the plays, players execute...
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