HealthTrust Performance Group, a performance improvement organization with an aligned healthcare membership model, has launched SurgIntel, a source for medical device implant analytics.
A press release on the launch states, “Drawing insights from HealthTrust’s membership base of more than 1,800 hospitals and 69,000 alternate sites of care, the intelligence platform is designed to provide hospitals, ASCs [ambulatory surgery centers] and health systems with comprehensive visibility and benchmarking on procedure supply expense and device utilization.”
Further, “Medical Device Management (MDM) is a HealthTrust value-added service built by operators and guided by physicians to help organizations go beyond pricing to capture value, cost-savings and physician alignment. The MDM team specializes in engaging physicians and supply chain to lower cost-per-case in the orthopedics, spine and cardiovascular service lines with the objectives of enhancing quality, lowering medical device spend and preventing long-term savings erosion in these high spend, clinically sensitive categories.”
