The Advisory Board Company: Clinical Research - Technology Insights

Technology Insights

Technology Insights provides unlimited on-demand, customized clinical technology support to client hospitals and health systems. Launched in 2004, Technology Insights has performed over 2,800 customized analyses on over 700 discrete clinical technologies, working with over 500 institutions in support of ongoing service line planning and clinical technology decisions.

Sample Products Available

  • Technology 360-Assessment: An in-depth investigation of a specific technology tailored to the needs of each client—ideal for major technology decisions involving substantial revenue opportunity, costs, or capital outlays
  • Technology Fact Brief: Primary research tightly focused on a handful of specific questions—ideal for “rounding out” evaluation of a specific clinical technology
  • Service Line “Gap Analysis”: Foundation for identifying and prioritizing critical technology acquisition and management decisions across the next 12 to 18 months; major deliverables include: 1) adoption benchmarks, 2) financial benchmarks, 3) technology options, and 4) purchase playbooks
  • Online Capsule Library: Brief two-page assessments that provide “need-to-know” information in an easily accessible format
  • Horizon Scan: Feature-length stories published monthly to keep clients abreast of the most innovative and forward-looking trends in the clinical technology marketplace

Representative Client Projects

  • Selecting the Most Appropriate Stereotactic Radiosurgery Platform: Assessing the Clinical, Operational, and Financial Merits of Available Technologies
  • Premium Orthopedic Implants: Estimating the True Financial Impact of Implant Vendor Consolidation
  • Launching a Comprehensive Cerebrovascular Program: Ensuring the Investment Is Supported by Market Demand and Financial Concerns
  • Transplant Center Strategic Guidance: Implications of Investing in Total Artificial Heart Technology
  • Making the Business Case for Proton Therapy: Assessing Five-Year Volume and Revenue Potential
  • Transnasal Esophagoscopy: Exploration of GI/ENT Turf Issues
  • Image-Guidance Technologies for Radiation Therapy: Assessing the Clinical and Financial Merits of Stereoscopic kV Imaging and Cone-Beam CT
  • Mobile C-Arm Technology Overview: Siemens SIREMOBIL Iso-C 3D
  • Diagnostic Imaging Service Line: Identifying Technologies for Future Growth
  • da Vinci Robotic Surgical System: Current and Future Applications, and Break-Even Analysis
  • TandemHeart Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device (pVAD): Hospital Experience and Economics