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44 Executive Briefing data that increases transparency so the entire care community is working with facts. Our solution has evolved in response to this mission, including scanning implant components in the operating room, assembling them into comparable clinical constructs, associating client contract pricing for implant systems, associating patient-reported outcomes with these systems and augmenting data with clinical evidence synthesis. The net result is a set of delivered insight that uniquely brings cost, quality, outcomes and evidence into a format that challenges current practices and fosters an open dialogue around clinical practice choice. As a member of the HealthTrust family of companies, informing the clinically integrated supply chain in this way is a very unique and actionable value-add to traditional group purchasing offerings. Q: Which elements are pertinent to a CJR pathway? LCM: Facilities in CJR markets have been forced to address incentive alignment and value management ahead of other markets, and yet the underlying objectives are universal. By establishing episode cost reimbursement caps, facilities and surgeons are forced into transparent evaluation of all available information to develop strategies to bring elements of cost across the episode under caps. InVivoLink analytics become a perfect companion for establishing and monitoring implant case cost performance, the single largest controllable cost-influential component of the episode. Furthermore, CJR introduces the requirement of capturing and reporting patient-reported outcomes measures, which InVivoLink services with digital patient engagement marketing and online PROM administration. In the performance period 1 evaluation with a large integrated delivery network partner, we measured that 79 percent of facilities with a positive CJR Net Payment Reconciliation Amount had InVivoLink solutions installed and operating for at least a year. In contrast, within those facilities with a negative NPRA amount, 71 percent did not have InVivoLink solutions present. Put together, InVivoLink solutions become the perfect proven partner for any facility in a CJR market, but the benefits of cost and outcomes insight apply to any program regardless of payment structure. Q: What role does technology play when hospitals and surgeons are improving care quality and coordination through orthopedic episodes of care? Cody King: It's about "frictionless-ness" and relevance, to every member of the care community. InVivoLink splices into the OR workflow unobtrusively, using bar code scanning technology to add on average less than a minute of additional tasks into a circulating nurse's intraoperative workflow. Collecting PROM data online from patients at home or via onsite tablets in preadmission testing or joint camps make outcomes data collection low-friction for the facility. As it relates to a patient's overall journey, technology has moved from a nice-to-have additive and supplement, to a competitive necessity if a provider is going to truly engage his or her patients and drive the best outcomes. Today's consumer expectations by patients are very high, as other industries have done a fantastic job intelligently engaging their customers and holding their hands through an experience or journey. InVivoLink is no different in that our solution reaches out to patients at scale and engages them in an empathetic, human way. An online surgery companion application like InVivoLink's YourCareSteps patient portal helps patients feel informed and less fearful about their impending operation. By filming and digitally distributing video of their own surgeons, YourCareSteps doses the right message at the right time to patients based on their countdown to surgery. Physician workflow needs to remain unobstructed, and delivered analytics need to be compelling, clear and contextual. InVivoLink provides physician-specific reporting and works together with hospitals to deliver, communicate and support findings in forums such as orthopedic council meetings or other venues. When surgeons can see both absolute and relative performance levels of key clinical and financial measures, especially where their performance is tied to specific value-based payment systems, they feel like they're making more informed decisions with a true hospital partner. The ROI on technology investments in frictionless data collection, education and insight delivery can be measured both in the hard costs of reducing episode implant cost per case and in the softer measures of increasing patient satisfaction and improving clinical outcomes. Q: What tools does InVivoLink offer surgeons and hospitals to manage patient-reported outcomes, implant utilization and patient engagement? CK: InVivoLink was founded on engaging with care teams to solve for driving patient outcomes and optimizing implant utilization. This starts with a solid foundation of high quality, reliable and benchmarked data at critical points along the patient's care pathway. InVivoLink's set of offerings is always evolving around the passion to provide clean, valuable insight to every member of the care community. We're always challenging ourselves and always improving the ways we collect data, synthesize insight and influence change. Our YourCareSteps patient engagement software digitally extends the surgeon's bedside by dosing their message in their voice at the right point in the patient's surgical journey. Our intra-OR software ties directly into EMRs and supply chain management systems to capture and assemble orthopedic construct data as well as trigger reorder workflow. Online PROM capture experiences begin with branded hospital and individual surgeon digital engagement outreach, and is always evolving to improve patient engagement. Bringing together PROM data, implant construct costs and utilization with evidence-based medicine and longitudinal study synthesis creates an information framework of long-term patient clinical outcomes indexed by cost. When the care community opens important conversations fueled by data transparency to improve clinical, financial and patient satisfaction value, everybody wins. Interested in learning more about InVivoLink solutions? Please visit healthtrustpg.com/invivolink or call us at 866.478.8981 x3 n About HealthTrust HealthTrust (HealthTrust Purchasing Group, L.P.) is committed to strengthening provider performance and clinical excellence through an aligned membership model and the delivery of total spend management advisory solutions that leverage our operator experience, scale and innovation. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, HealthTrust (www.healthtrustpg.com) serves approximately 1,600 acute care facilities and members in more than 26,000 other locations, including ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices, long-term care and alternate care sites. On Twitter @healthtrustpg.