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    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.

    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 can we 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.

    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

    • 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

    • Accelerates access to care from diagnosis to treatment
    • Enhances the patient experience
    • Enables better procedure preparedness
    • Shortens stays and time spent on waitlists, and 
    • Achieves higher satisfaction

    • Maximizes time to manage patients
    • Reduces waste
    • Improves communications and care coordination
    • Enables better patient selection for better outcomes
    • Allows for continuous improvement, and 
    • Unlocks capacity while reducing waitlists 

    Our success stories

    Improving diagnostic capacity through a design and construction project

    The Cardiology Department at Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago (CHUS) sought IHS' expertise to design and construct a new diagnostic space to enhance its cardiac imaging capabilities and operational efficiency.

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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

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Lean Principles

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