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Cardiovascular Excellence Program

 

Our data-driven strategies, proven methods, and holistic approaches improve CV department efficiencies and patient outcomes. Through a unique partnership, we help you streamline operations, accelerate and enhance pathways, increase patient volumes, and enable continuous improvement.

 

Surgical staff in the Operating Room.

150%

growth in TAVI procedures in seven years

75%

increase in on-time Cath Lab starts

-27%

decrease in length of stay

+1€ M

revenue increase over five years from new chest pain unit

 

 

CV Departments are facing several challenges at once:

Increasing patient volumes along with workforce shortages, limited beds and expanding waitlists.

Improving operational efficiency, increasing capacity, reducing variability, and driving staff engagement.                     

Hurdles in deploying digitalization, and accessing and integrating data insights.

 

 

 How we can help

 

We help healthcare providers transform their CV departments so they can treat each patient with the right therapy, free up capacity, maximize efficiency, drive economic success, and advance data-driven outcomes and innovation. Our customizable and modular approach includes road-tested protocols, processes, and rich content to accelerate and inspire change within these three performance pillars:

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Patient and pathway management:

Build robust, best-in-class care pathways that accelerate patient access and deliver superior clinical outcomes and performance.

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Care setting operational excellence: 

Optimize resource utilization to extract high value from service excellence from various care settings. 

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Strategy and patient acquisition:

Define the department’s mission, vision, strategy, and roadmap and actively manage the referral network for optimal patient selection and qualification.

 

 Benefits

Our partner hospitals have seen significant impact from this program.

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Benefits for Hospitals:

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  • Attracts referrals and top talent
  • Improves outcomes
  • Creates a case for greater reimbursement
  • Enables continuous quality improvement through data-driven insights
  • Supports ability to meet and exceed volume targets


Benefits for Patients:

Benefits for the Physician and Care Team:

 

Our Success Stories

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Cardiovascular Excellence: A powerful collaboration generating sustainable value

Discover how a unique collaboration enabled a Heart Center to address key challenges and generate concrete results across an astounding 40+ projects.

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Increasing TAVI procedures by 20% without adding resources or infrastructure

Discover how the Medtronic IHS TAVI Pathway Optimization project enabled an Italian hospital to increase TAVI procedures by 20% and significantly reduce length of stay. 

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A modernized Cardiolounge for same-day discharge delivers value for Rigshospitalet

Constructing a visionary, innovative and patient-centric Cardiolounge freed up 5 clinical ward beds and saved an average of €500 per case.

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Our approach includes: 

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Sustainability

We help hospitals transform without compromising the future impact on the planet and people. Our programs support decarbonizing healthcare delivery by addressing supply chains, infrastructure, and care pathways.

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PMO & Change Management

We offer a robust Project Management Office (PMO) and Change Management across all of our services to ensure the seamless execution of our long-term partnerships.

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Data & Analytics 

We leverage data and analytics to drive informed decision-making, optimize outcomes, monitor progress, identify trends, and adapt swiftly to new challenges and opportunities for sustainable success.

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Lean Principles

We use a lean-based approach in our operations and improvement activities to enhance efficiency and elevate the quality of care.

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Benefits of scale

We harness our global network of over 250+ healthcare providers, 650 experts, and industry partners to foster collaboration, benchmark performance, and share best practices, driving collective improvement and innovation.

 

 

 

 

Connect with one of our experts

We are a team of experienced and highly trained experts who help providers reach their healthcare delivery goals. If you think we can help you, reach out to one of our advisors today for more information on what the Integrated Health Solutions team  can do for your hospital. 

 

 

 

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