“American healthcare and the American health system are exceedingly complex and almost beyond human comprehension”
Uwe E. Reinhardt Leading Healthcare Advisor, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University
- Access to Care: The intricate insurance system often dictates who can afford what kind of surgical care, potentially delaying necessary surgeries or leading patients to forego procedures due to high costs or insurance denials, and how profit-driven decisions by insurance companies can override medical necessity.
- Surgical Outcomes and Variability: Research indicates that there’s a weak relationship between the intensity of treatment (including surgeries) and quality outcomes. This variability, often driven by geographic, economic, and systemic factors rather than evidence-based practices, can lead to inconsistent surgical quality across different regions and facilities.
- Healthcare Fragmentation: The system’s fragmentation leads to a lack of coordinated care, which can affect surgical outcomes. For instance, the choice of surgical facility (public vs. private) can influence the complexity of cases handled, with private facilities often handling less complicated cases, potentially skewing outcome data and affecting the quality of training and experience for surgeons.
- Economic Incentives and Surgical Decisions: The financial structure of healthcare, where certain procedures are reimbursed at higher rates, might push hospitals and surgeons towards performing more lucrative surgeries rather than those most needed or beneficial for patient health. This economic bias can compromise the quality of surgical care by prioritizing profit over patient outcomes
Informed Surgical was formed to significantly reduce the complications associated with the highest volume surgeries, addressing an estimated $200B problem in the US today. Informed+ integrates with an employer’s existing healthcare benefits to reduce the overall cost by improving employee care and surgical outcomes with minimal disruption of their current benefit plans.
Informed+ Surgical was formed after the founders investigated the substantial amount of variability that occurs across surgical interventions. Through analyzing data sourced from robotic surgery devices, thousands of variations were identified for individual procedures. Informed+ also found that surgical complication rates can approach 50% for individual procedures, average 14.6% across all procedures and there was convincing evidence that this procedure variability is a significant contribution.
Informed+ is developing a national registry that connects patients to “elite” surgeons. Different than a “Center of Excellence” model, Informed’s “Surgeon of Excellence” model doesn’t rely on an institutions reputation but rather finds the high-performance surgeons in the local market that provide superior patient experience with elite-class outcomes, resulting in lower costs to employers by as much as 45%.
Our Mission
Our Purpose
Our Values
To build a community of high performing Surgeons and Hospitals that will improve quality of surgical outcomes for patients by using the power of digital technology to better align and educate surgical teams.
Informed+ Surgical is a technology enabled surgical process company that reduces the cost of acute healthcare by attending to the complications that exist in surgery today. By Improving and disseminating standards we reduce surgical complications, Length of Hospital Stays (LOS) and foster faster patient recovery – all while reducing overall cost.
The patient experience, the cost of healthcare and the virtuous cycle of improvement.