Healthcare Strategic Insight, LLC Announces Strategic Merger With the Apogee Life Sciences Group to Reduce Physician Preference Device Costs
Healthcare Strategic Insight, LLC (HSI), the leading provider of innovative implementation strategies for emerging technology to the healthcare industry, today announced a merger with The Apogee Life Sciences Group, a pioneering healthcare consulting group specializing in negotiation training for hospitals, IDNs and Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 2, 2004 -- Healthcare Strategic Insight, LLC (HSI), the leading provider of innovative implementation strategies for emerging technology to the healthcare industry, today announced a merger with The Apogee Life Sciences Group, a pioneering healthcare consulting group specializing in negotiation training for hospitals, IDNs and Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
Apogee provides training in a proven four-step process that will provide clients the tools to renegotiate contracts with medical device vendors. This process will show organizations how to use data to deliver vendor agreements that provide physician choice at fair prices.
The merger is effective immediately and will operate under the brand name of Healthcare Strategic Insight, LLC (HSI). It will operate out of expanded premises at the new Oak Brook, IL office. This relationship will combine expertise and experience of both companies to substantially lower the cost of medical devices, implants and big-ticket capital equipment.
HSIs own unique program offers support through all key phases of medical device integration including analysis of equipment needed, service line development, strategic planning and marketing, implementation services and opportunity assessments. Under the agreement, HSI will have a greater ability to provide its customers with additional resources and expertise for emerging medical technology, implementation services and cost-reduction initiatives. As a result of this merger, HSI will be rolling out a dedicated web-based tool that will help healthcare customers realize huge savings on the purchase of expensive capital equipment.
Implant usage has increased 115% since 1991. We have watched hospitals struggle to control costs," states, Ben Adams, a spokesman for the new combined companies. Our merger will result in a model that significantly expands the opportunity to identify cost savings through negotiation training and an implementation arm to realize those savings."
Tim Polley, HSI President said: We welcome the opportunity to work with a company that has a strong reputation and deep industry knowledge. This merger with Apogee is a good combination of resources, which will help us to sustain our companys growth. "
About The Apogee Lifesciences Group
The Apogee Lifesciences Group provides consulting services in the form of one-day seminars designed to train health systems in the negotiation of contracts for medical devices and implants.
About Healthcare Strategic Insight, LLC (HSI)
Healthcare Strategic Insight was founded to assist healthcare organizations create and implement successful, innovative strategies surrounding the early adoption of emerging medical technology and multi-discipline integration of technology.
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