NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- InVivoLink, LLC (IVL), a Nashville-based healthcare company whose mission is to improve medical implant procedure outcomes, today officially announced the company’s launch and introduced its management team.
InVivoLink provides hospitals, physicians and medical device suppliers technology to improve clinical, financial and operational outcomes, all while enhancing patient safety. The company’s solutions capture clinical and financial data before, during and after implant surgeries. InVivoLink’s technology currently is being used by physicians and implant distributors across four states. These distributors represent manufacturers that supply approximately 75 percent of the medical devices used in the United States.
“At InVivoLink, we believe there is a direct relationship between patient safety and how well the physician, the hospital and the implant manufacturer coordinate activities throughout the continuum of care,” said Ryan Wells, founder and CEO of InVivoLink. “We focus on providing technology to enable alignment and collaboration, benefitting everyone involved.”
For healthcare providers, IVL captures and translates the quality and efficiency data necessary to become a best-in-class orthopaedic center. Surgeons gain access to reports that describe patient flow, implant utilization per patient, schedule and productivity. IVL’s tools aggregate and categorize practice history and trends, allowing physicians to make informed, evidence-based choices like never before.
Customer-specific portals – for the hospital, physician and distributor – stand alone and present benefits to the various stakeholders. The distributor portal provides a solution for case scheduling and inventory management. Cases also can be scheduled via the physician portal, using new “active” physician preference software designed to remove steps for both the distributor and the physician’s scheduling department. The hospital portal provides exposure to case and inventory data, in addition to its primary purpose of capturing data in the OR.
The resulting data is maintained by InVivoLink in de-identified form and constitutes a national implant registry. This data fills current knowledge gaps around implantable devices, ultimately increasing patient safety.
Sweden has maintained an implant registry system since 1979. Evidence suggests the registry has improved outcomes and economics related to these procedures. For example, the current hip revision rate in Sweden is 8 percent, compared to 18 percent in the U.S. Current estimates predict total knee revision rates in the U.S. to increase by more than 300 percent by 2030 if the status quo continues.
“InVivoLink is exciting because its registry technology promises to be sustainable. This is the first registry offering positioned to provide clinical, financial and operational value for all the constituents involved with orthopaedic implant procedures,” said Bo Mason, an IVL clinical advisor and hip/knee specialist with OrthoCarolina.
With IVL, medical device suppliers experience fewer errors due to improved workflows, along with enhanced case scheduling, inventory control, customer support and analytics. They can access the data, housed on a secure, Web-based platform, wherever and whenever it’s needed on a variety of devices (e.g., iPhone, BlackBerry, Android).
Before founding InVivoLink, CEO Wells spent 13 years at DePuy Orthopaedics. The IVL management team also includes Adel ElMessiry, CTO, formerly with HealthStream, and John Bass, COO, previously with Global Healthcare Exchange and Titan Management Group.
In addition to IVL’s clinical advisors, other advisors include: Rock Morphis, managing director, Heritage Capital Partners; Jim Sohr, former CEO/president, AIM Healthcare; and Drew Turitz, vice president, Sandbox Industries.
About InVivoLink
InVivoLink, LLC (IVL) is a healthcare technology company that helps hospitals, physicians and medical device suppliers improve clinical, financial and operational outcomes all while enhancing patient safety. IVL’s products and services focus on collecting and disseminating meaningful data related to medical procedures. For more information, visit www.invivolink.com.
CONTACT:
For InVivoLink, LLC:
Laura Campbell & Associates
Laura Campbell, 615-579-6599
[email protected]
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