Align your strategies

Using insights to help improve cost, quality and market performance

Data to inform your strategy

See the latest market insights to inform your strategy with our monthly series – Data on the Edge – which uses proprietary data and analytical assets to examine emerging or leading challenges that face providers today.

Service distribution strategies should be considered when addressing cross-functional goals. A new analysis evaluating the relationship between volume and quality outcomes for two procedures demonstrates a data-driven approach that benefits all stakeholders.

Read the full analysis

We forecast significant growth in virtual care, projecting over 25% of evaluation and management visits to be virtual by 2033. Much of the growth is driven by factors such as new entrants or disrupter activities and the adoption and investment in hybrid care delivery.

Read the full analysis

Disrupters pose both a real threat to the current delivery system of healthcare and a meaningful opportunity to forge partnerships and spur innovation. They are changing the way employers and payers consider healthcare costs and value while also changing the way consumers select where and how they receive health care services

Read the full analysis

Emergency Department patient acuity is projected to continue with an increase in emergent visits by 8% and a decline in urgent visits by 4% by 2034. Effective ED management will focus on driving operational efficiency and strategic decision-making between ED, inpatient, and observation care.

Read the full analysis

The ED has always been and will continue to be a front door to the health system and a critical cornerstone of patient care.

Market projections for the next 10 years

Evaluate opportunities for growth using our 10-year forecast. As inpatient and outpatient volumes grow over the next decade, health systems must optimize care delivery for their increasingly aging complex patients. The annual Impact of Change® by Sg2, a Vizient, Inc company, aims to help healthcare leaders by projecting industry growth across key service lines and helping organizations understand care delivery opportunities. Here, Vizient experts on the Sg2 intelligence team — including Tori Richie, senior consulting director, who leads the forecast, along with principals Chad Giese and Karyl Kopaskie — discuss insights from this year's projections that can help healthcare leaders achieve financial sustainability and growth — and, most importantly, provide accessible and effective patient care.

On Sg2 Perspectives, host Tori Richie joins Sg2 Principals Chad Giese and Karyl Kopaskie, to talk about the annual Impact of Change! Tori, Chad and Karyl discuss key trends in the new forecast and how health systems can use this forecast to inform their strategies. They also touch on some wild cards and innovations that could change the demand and delivery of health care over the next decade.

Listen to the podcast

Healthcare systems can’t continue to provide care using the same old approaches with the capacity constraints hospitals now face.

Tori Richie

Senior Consulting Director Sg2 Intelligence

Overcoming capacity restraints

In this report, leaders from five healthcare providers share challenges and key strategies they’ve implemented to combat capacity constraints at their organizations. See how leading organizations are focusing on areas with prevalent health barriers, utilizing data analytics and rethinking workforce teams to manage patient needs and grow in their market.

The number of days a patient spends in the hospital will increase by 9%, with 70% of those days attributed to low and medium-acuity patients.

2024 Sg2 Impact of Change Forecast

Trends to address in 2024

By making bold bets and embracing innovation, healthcare organizations can drive transformation, improve patient outcomes and secure a competitive edge in the industry. See strategies to do so by reading our latest report.

2024 will be a pivotal year. To get ahead, leadership teams should commit to an inside-out philosophy.

Prepare your pharmacy with actionable insights

Our bi-annual Pharmacy Market Outlook provides drug price forecasts and actionable insights to prepare your pharmacy for the year ahead.

Insights to prepare your pharmacy for the year ahead.

Talk to our team of experts
What can we do for youTalk to our team of experts