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Clinical and technological advances continuously reshape healthcare services and the workforce that delivers them. In a cycle of creative destruction, new roles emerge while some legacy positions are reconsidered. Multiple drivers will also impact workforce needs in coming decades. Examples include an older and more diverse population, environmental impacts that disproportionately affect vulnerabl...

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...

For most health systems, the post-COVID survivor mode has ended. Systems have reached some level of cost structure and workforce stability, and they can turn their attention once again to strategic investments and growth. But that doesn’t mean the coming years will be without challenges. Top of mind for many is ambulatory growth and access, capacity management, new revenue generation, and s...

Strategic collaboration in cancer care between academic medical centers (AMCs) and community-based programs is becoming essential to meet capacity challenges, broaden reach and close gaps in care delivery. Players on both sides face opportunity and complexity when evaluating, scaling and sustaining these partnerships. Three steps heighten the potential for partnership success. Start with sha...

Providers are being asked to take on more financial risk by payers, moving from fee-for-service to value-based care payment models across all lines of business. Following Medicare’s goal of having 100% of traditional Medicare beneficiaries in an accountable care relationship by 2030, other payers such as Medicare Advantage, commercial and Medicaid plans are also placing responsibility on pro...

As part of Sg2’s value-based care (VBC) analysis and market research, we review the quarterly earnings calls from a subset of publicly traded legacy payers and VBC-focused entrants. The summary is designed to highlight emerging trends and dynamics in these closely related industries, especially as they tie to VBC. The following post draws from recently released earnings call transcripts fro...

Conversations with health care industry partners increasingly focus on how they can better engage their customers. It isn’t enough to just speak to current trends; the key to standing out with providers is offering unique, data-backed insights aligned to their priorities. Deeper relationships require deeper commitment. Margins are tight, resources stretched and capacity constrained. Health ...

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...

Health system leaders are being asked to deliver growth, improve access and protect margins in an environment defined by payment reform and site-of-care disruption. Enterprise strategies are increasingly sophisticated, yet many organizations still struggle to translate strategic intent into measurable performance at the front line. The gap is rarely about vision; it is about alignment. Service lin...

Health care leaders face unprecedented complexity—massive data volumes, disruptive innovation and rapid policy shifts. To stay ahead, executives need more than historical analytics; they need foresight grounded in evidence and expert interpretation. That’s where Sg2’s Impact of Change forecast stands apart. At Vizient, Sg2’s dedicated research team annually synthesizes prop...