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Physicians Drive Medical Device Cost Savings by Utilizing a Mobile App for Product Comparison

Join this session to learn how to collaborate with your critical stakeholders to drive down costs by sharing pricing and product information in a manner that is relevant to their workflow. The University of Vermont Health Network engaged with a technology and negotiation company to develop a mobile device application for physicians to view comparable cardiac rhythm management devices (pacemakers and defibrillators). Since this project started in 2016, we have expanded use of the physician phone app to Coronary stents, and Orthopedic hip, knee, and spinal implants. The mobile app allows physicians to see real time the device costs and features, available inventory, and to order or select the products to be used in advance of the case, minimizing pressure from the vendor to bias selection at the time of implant. The tool has driven utilization savings because physicians further inform their device selection by seeing and better understanding the pricing deltas among suppliers, product features and technology.  

 

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Information Technology (IT)