Capitalize on These Opportunities in the Emerging Outpatient Surgery Market

In this fourth installment of his quarterly column, Patrick Vega of Vizient Advisory Solutions provides a description of ambulatory settings and strategies, and suggests ways that device companies can capitalize on the shift from inpatient surgical settings to hospital outpatient departments, ASCs and outpatient sites of care. Contributors to this article hypothesize that device companies that better understand the outpatient setting can more effectively adapt their products, services and support to meet customer needs.

Hospital Trends: What Hospitals Want Orthopedic Manufacturers to Know

As hospitals, health systems and their associated provider environments become ever more complex, traditional approaches to establishing relationships, selling products and servicing accounts have become less effective. OEMs that endeavor to both understand the customer environment, in its full continuum, and meaningfully invest in a partnership with providers can be rewarded with market share growth, reciprocal value and more permanence in their relations with providers and IDNs.