CathClip Value Analysis Information:
CathClip pays for itself in materials cost savings alone, plus provides additional benefits in improved productivity, safety, and clinical outcomes.
CathClip improves procedure safety, productivity, and profitability by effectively handling guidewires, catheters, and balloons during procedures so that they don't become damaged, drop on the floor, or touch outside the sterile field - all which adds time and expense to procedures, especially when those devices need to be replaced. CathClip is demonstrated in our quick demonstration video.
Studies show that CathClip pays for itself and that facilities actually come out ahead in cost savings when CathClip is used. A study of duplicate devices used in Interventional Radiology at a major academic hospital revealed that the cost of duplicates worked out to an average of over $51 per case in all cases, including simple abscess drain and central line placement cases, and over $231 per case in complex cases alone. CathClip takes care of guidewires, catheters, and balloons during procedures so that duplicate devices are not needed. Typically, 1 or 2 sterile packages of CathClip would be used in the cases studied, leading to a net cost savings for the facility if CathClip is used in every case (complex and routine). The benefits are likely to be even greater in other specialties, such as Interventional Cardiology and Vascular Surgery, where more expensive flexible elongated devices are used, such as drug-eluting balloons and stents.
On top of that materials cost savings, CathClip provides additional cost savings in reduced procedure times as well as improved safety and clinical outcomes as devices are kept in the sterile field thereby decreasing infection risk, procedure times are decreased, and the team can focus on patient care rather than device management, with devices ready to be used when needed.
CathClip further improves safety and clinical outcomes by eliminating embolization/stroke risk from lint presented by using items with cotton fibers, such as gauze and cotton towels, to hold and wipe flexible elongated devices, such as guidewires, catheters, and balloons. See, e.g., Fischi M and Narins CR. Coronary Embolization of a Gauze Fragment: A Cautionary Case Report. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions (2005). Vol. 66, 570-572. Further academic articles are cited within the CathClip New Product Justification / Value Analysis, available for download below. CathClip's foam is a dimensionally stable polyurethane and therefore does not release lint.
CathClip improves care team safety as well, by reducing unnecessary radiation and reducing COVID exposure.
Using CathClip solves the problems caused by mismanagement of flexible elongated devices, such as guidewires, catheters, and balloons, improving procedure profitability, productivity, safety, and clinical outcomes, including as described below.
Studies show that CathClip pays for itself and that facilities actually come out ahead in cost savings when CathClip is used. A study of duplicate devices used in Interventional Radiology at a major academic hospital revealed that the cost of duplicates worked out to an average of over $51 per case in all cases, including simple abscess drain and central line placement cases, and over $231 per case in complex cases alone. CathClip takes care of guidewires, catheters, and balloons during procedures so that duplicate devices are not needed. Typically, 1 or 2 sterile packages of CathClip would be used in the cases studied, leading to a net cost savings for the facility if CathClip is used in every case (complex and routine). The benefits are likely to be even greater in other specialties, such as Interventional Cardiology and Vascular Surgery, where more expensive flexible elongated devices are used, such as drug-eluting balloons and stents.
On top of that materials cost savings, CathClip provides additional cost savings in reduced procedure times as well as improved safety and clinical outcomes as devices are kept in the sterile field thereby decreasing infection risk, procedure times are decreased, and the team can focus on patient care rather than device management, with devices ready to be used when needed.
CathClip further improves safety and clinical outcomes by eliminating embolization/stroke risk from lint presented by using items with cotton fibers, such as gauze and cotton towels, to hold and wipe flexible elongated devices, such as guidewires, catheters, and balloons. See, e.g., Fischi M and Narins CR. Coronary Embolization of a Gauze Fragment: A Cautionary Case Report. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions (2005). Vol. 66, 570-572. Further academic articles are cited within the CathClip New Product Justification / Value Analysis, available for download below. CathClip's foam is a dimensionally stable polyurethane and therefore does not release lint.
CathClip improves care team safety as well, by reducing unnecessary radiation and reducing COVID exposure.
Using CathClip solves the problems caused by mismanagement of flexible elongated devices, such as guidewires, catheters, and balloons, improving procedure profitability, productivity, safety, and clinical outcomes, including as described below.
For more details on CathClip's benefits, including relevant white papers and academic articles, please see the CathClip New Product Justification / Value Analysis, available for download directly below.
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Procedure time and cost of materials directly impact the cost of health care. CathClip reduces waste, increasing value.
Procedure time correlates directly with cost variation and is the largest contributor to overall procedure cost. With procedure suite costs conservatively estimated at $600 per hour, a recent study found that the time a patient is in a procedure suite is the largest contributor to the overall cost of a procedure. The study concludes, "These findings suggest that utilization of equipment, which allows for expedient procedure resolution, regardless of cost, may be paradoxically more cost effective overall for select routine procedures." R.A. Charalel, R.S. Winokur, J. Jo, A.S. Amorosso, B.B. Pua; Radiology, NewYork-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY; Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY. Major contributors to operating cost variation for common interventional radiology procedures. Abstract presented at: SIR 2015 Annual Scientific Meeting; 2015 Feb 28 - Mar 5; Atlanta, GA.
Mismanagement of materials during procedures leads to waste in time and materials, unnecessarily raising overall procedure cost. Without CathClip, flexible elongated medical devices are managed with makeshift techniques, which are time-intensive, distracting, and don't even effectively hold the devices reliably. CathClip is specifically designed for universally holding these expensive devices during procedures and is a cost-effective alternative which will decrease time and materials costs.
Reducing the costs of unnecessarily long procedure times and wasted materials increases value in health care. If value is defined by health outcomes achieved per dollar spent, value increases when cost is reduced while the best outcomes are achieved. CathClip reduces waste in materials and time, therefore reducing cost, and helps interventionalists and their procedure team members focus on the procedure at hand rather than focusing on the management of flexible elongated medical devices, thereby helping to achieve the best outcomes. Reducing cost while achieving best outcomes increases value. See Porter ME. What Is Value in Health Care? N Engl J Med 2010; 363:2477-81. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1011024.
Mismanagement of materials during procedures leads to waste in time and materials, unnecessarily raising overall procedure cost. Without CathClip, flexible elongated medical devices are managed with makeshift techniques, which are time-intensive, distracting, and don't even effectively hold the devices reliably. CathClip is specifically designed for universally holding these expensive devices during procedures and is a cost-effective alternative which will decrease time and materials costs.
Reducing the costs of unnecessarily long procedure times and wasted materials increases value in health care. If value is defined by health outcomes achieved per dollar spent, value increases when cost is reduced while the best outcomes are achieved. CathClip reduces waste in materials and time, therefore reducing cost, and helps interventionalists and their procedure team members focus on the procedure at hand rather than focusing on the management of flexible elongated medical devices, thereby helping to achieve the best outcomes. Reducing cost while achieving best outcomes increases value. See Porter ME. What Is Value in Health Care? N Engl J Med 2010; 363:2477-81. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1011024.
CathClip New Product Justification / Value Analysis
An introduction to CathClip with details of its benefits to cost savings, safety (patient and worker), and clinical outcomes, including relevant white papers and citations to relevant academic articles, is available for download directly below.
CathClip New Product Justification and Value Analysis | |
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