Podcasts

Vizient's podcast channels are dedicated to critical issues you face: health care strategy, performance improvement and of course, patient care. Whether your work is focused on the here and now at the patient's bedside or looking toward the future and your organization's long-term health, our podcasts feature subject matter experts from the Vizient/Sg2 teams and your colleagues across the membership. Subscribe to our channels on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher and new episodes will come right to your phone, tablet or computer every week.

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Twenty Years of Group Buys

This episode highlights the mainstay of Vizient’s group purchasing strategy – the Group Buy Program. Celebrating 20 years of delivering value, the Group Buy Program is a flexible, time-bound program for healthcare organizations that enables them to a..

Imaging’s Expanding Impact - Navigating Demand, Innovation and Strategy in 2025 - Part 2

On this episode, we finish our discussion on the dynamic growth and future of diagnostic imaging. Imaging is expanding well beyond the hospital walls and factors into any strategic plans for the future. Guests: Gurmeet Bawa, MS Consulting Director ..

Imaging’s Expanding Impact - Navigating Demand, Innovation and Strategy in 2025 - Part 1

Diagnostic imaging is a dynamic growth engine in healthcare, reaching into areas such as AI, sustainability and emerging therapies with tremendous improvements now and in the near future. Its reach goes well beyond the hospital walls. On the next two..

Bernadette Melnyk, Chief Wellness Officer, The Ohio State University

In this episode, Barbara chats with Dr. Bernadette Melnyk, Chief Wellness Officer at the Ohio State University. Dr. Melnyk is an internationally known expert on evidence-based practice, population health and patient and clinical well-being. Guest ..

Marcus Engel, Compassion Consultant

February 27, 2024

Marcus Engel survived a traumatic car accident that taught him the healing power of compassion and human connection. He uses his experiences and narrative medicine to help caregivers nationwide to rediscover their compassion for the benefit of themse..

Erica DeBoer, Chief Nursing Officer, Sanford Health

February 13, 2024

Guest speaker:Erica DeBoer, RN, MA, CCRN-K, CNLChief Nursing OfficerSanford Health Host:Barbara Seymour, DNP, RN, NE-BC, CPPSAssociate Vice President, Member ConnectionsVizient Show Notes: [1:00] Erica shares her nursing journey and the technology..

Mortality is often viewed as a key indicator of the quality of care in a healthcare organization, and something that most organizations are working to improve upon. Through Vizient's work with national organizations all working to improve mortality, ..

The power of value analysis

Value analysis empowers health systems to make strategic, evidence-based decisions to optimize patient outcomes and reduce costs. Host LaTammy Marks and guest Nicole Schmidt talk about the power of value analysis in healthcare. Nicole shares how her ..

Mobility is medicine

Patient immobility can lead to serious complications such as muscle loss, blood clots, depression and loss of independence. However, without proper training and support, many healthcare workers feel it is unsafe to mobilize patients. Host Laura Hoffm..

Rethinking medical group strategy, Part 3

January 9, 2025

This episode of our award-winning podcast concludes our discussion on a new approach for medical groups in this time of drastic change. Only those models undergoing change will succeed. Host:Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHMSenior Principal, P..

Rethinking medical group strategy, Part 2

January 2, 2025

All the drastic changes occurring in healthcare, particularly in the way it is delivered, necessitate corresponding changes in how we structure medical groups. This episode of our award-winning podcast continues the discussion on the need for a new s..

Rethinking medical group strategy, Part 1

December 30, 2024

The huge flurry of changes in how we deliver healthcare have brought into question the viability of the conventional medical group model, whether it’s sustainable and gives us a competitive advantage or whether we need to invest in something else. On..

Cell and Gene Therapy in Practice

In this episode of Sg2 Perspectives, Jayme Zage, PhD speaks with leaders from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Katherine Helbig, MS, LCGC, AVP of Research Strategy and Accelerator Programs, and Dan Fields, JD, SVP and Chief Strategy Of..

Differentiation That Delivers

In this episode of Sg2 Perspectives, Jayme Zage, PhD is joined by Sg2 Principals Rebecca Limestall and Brian Esser to explore what true differentiation means in today’s health care landscape. They dig into why many health systems struggle to stand ou..

Care Beyond the Hospital Walls

In this episode of Sg2 Perspectives, host Jayme Zage, PhD is joined by Sg2 experts Rachael Zirkelbach and Nikita Arora to explore the evolving dynamics of post-acute care and care-at-home strategies. From bifurcated health system readiness to workfor..

Built to Last: Rx for Resilience

We all know that clinician burnout negatively impacts the quality of patient care. That's why pharmacy residency accrediting bodies now emphasize resident well-being and professional sustainability as core components of residency training earlier in ..

COVID Vaccine Realities for 2025–26

Information on COVID vaccines is moving fast. On May 27th, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that COVID vaccines will no longer be universally recommended for healthy children or healthy pregnant women. That's a big shift, and understanda..

Reverse Distribution needs your attention

Pharmacy reverse distributors play a key role in making pharmaceutical returns more efficient, helping with processing, financial settlements and delivering helpful data. They're in a unique spot to support efforts to prevent diversion, speed up inve..