Avant Garde

Avant-garde Health is a healthcare data analytics company whose software gives hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and individual physicians granular visibility into the clinical, financial and operational drivers of care. The platform surfaces details such as supply costs, operating room times and post-discharge spending, broken out by physician, department, hospital, ASC and peer provider, so that customers can locate specific improvement opportunities.

The product line is organized around surgical performance: surgical cost management, surgical coding optimization, surgical quality and outcomes optimization, PACU and OR throughput, and support for the CMS TEAM model. Its named software offering is CareMeasurement. Beyond software, the company offers advisory work in which its team helps clients build "playbooks" that translate analytic findings into specific action steps and then track results over time.

Customer-facing audiences include hospital leadership (organizational savings, profitability, data-driven decisions), service line administrators (operational efficiency, benchmarking, physician engagement) and physicians and surgeons (peer benchmarking, OR efficiency, length of stay, readmission rates).

Business model

Software-and-services model: the company provides an analytics platform (CareMeasurement) to provider organizations and complements it with consulting-style engagements in which its team helps clients design and execute improvement plans and track outcomes over time.

Traction

The company names New England Baptist, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Gundersen Health System as clients, and publishes case studies covering Mass General Brigham - Newton Wellesley, Penn State - Hershey Medical and Rothman Orthopedics. Reported client results include a $2,300 reduction in average cost per case, a 33% reduction in discharges to skilled nursing and inpatient rehab settings, a 15% decrease in 90-day readmission rates and a 13% reduction in average length of stay; one hospital client is cited as saving $5,900 per case, with 10% lower surgical supply costs, a 44% reduction in length of stay, a 49% reduction in post-acute care costs and an 86% reduction in 90-day readmissions.