Who can benefit from the Spine Tango registry?
 

There are as many sets of benefits as there are stakeholders who can directly take advantage of the Spine Tango project:

EuroSpine, the Spine Society of Europe motivation
 

 

SSE wants to be the owner of the largest available database regarding the management of spinal pathology hence increasing SSE high quality scientific output and reputation.

SSE expects to have the possibility to manage the scientific benchmark of reference for Outcome Research publications and quality management purposes.

Indeed, through the management of this EuroSpine Registry, the SSE will have a strategic tool to Federate and empower National and Specialist Federations of Europe (and potentially even outside Europe).

The Key Benefits are:

  • Credibility vs members and other societies
  • Build up educational material for the spinal community (ex: SSE Edu com)
  • Research and development purposes.
Why should the Spine Specialist be interested in Spine Tango?
 
  • Credibility towards:
    • Patients
    • Referring physicians
  •  Personal assessment
    • Possibility to improve
    • Trouble shooting
  •  Use Spine tango as patient management system
    • “Follow up calendar” 
  • Key Performance Indicator
    • Internal to local administration
    • External to Health Care payers
  • Compare clinical results to the pool (Local (the hospital), or National, or worldwide)
  • Be ready to sustain the pressure from health insurance companies
  • Possibility to conduct Research
National Spine Societies and Federations of Specialists
 

Every Spine Society should find the same advantages and benefits as the SSE at their local level.

Every Federations of Specialists can also take advantage of the existing Benchmark in the Spine surgery.

 

Health Care (Spine) Centers and Hospital groups
 

 

Single center:

  • Credibility towards:
    • Patients
    • Referring physicians
    • Colleagues in house
    • Other departments or centers of the same group
  • Staff skills assessment:
    • Possibility to improve
    • Trouble shooting
  • Possibility to conduct Research
  • Be ready to sustain the pressure from health insurance companies

Hospital Group:

  • Optimization
    • Internal skills and resources within
  • Use Spine Tango routinely as patient management system
    • Triage of patients
    • Ongoing “Follow up calendar” development (When is follow up due)
  • Compare clinical results to the pool
    • Local (Department (one center can have several departments), one center of the group of hospitals or the whole group)
    • National or worldwide)
  • Key Performance Indicator
    • Internal to local administration
    • External to HC payers
  • Quality control
    • Having a database of their own activity
    • CE and ISO label access
  • Negotiate with health insurance companies
    • Discounts
    • Patient referrals from Insurance companies
  • Negotiate with Med Tech companies
    • Product assessment
    • Discounts
    • Fellowship

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