# Avant-garde Health

> Avant-garde Health is a Boston-based healthcare data analytics company whose CareMeasurement platform helps hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and physicians measure the true cost, quality and processes of surgical care - then turn those insights into measurable savings and better patient outcomes. Founded in 2014 out of value-based care research at Harvard Business School, the company applies Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) across EMR, financial, claims and patient-reported outcomes data to reveal what was previously invisible inside the operating room and the care pathway around it.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founders:** Derek Haas (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~47 employees (across North America, Asia and Africa)
- **Products:** CareMeasurement, Surgical Cost Management, Coding Optimization, Quality & Outcomes Optimization, Healthcare Research All-Stars
- **Notable:** Named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America, Raised $12M Series A in March 2022 led by Fulcrum Equity Partners, Documented client outcomes: $5,900 savings per case, 44% reduction in length of stay, 86% reduction in 90-day readmissions, 49% reduction in post-acute care costs

## Products & services

- **CareMeasurement** — A healthcare analytics platform that ingests EMR, financial, claims and patient-reported outcomes (PROM) data and applies Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) plus proprietary algorithms to reveal the true cost, quality and process of surgical and procedure-based care - with benchmarking across departments, hospitals and health systems.
- **Surgical Cost Management** — Identifies cost-reduction opportunities across supplies, OR time, team composition and post-acute care for surgical episodes.
- **Coding Optimization** — Improves medical coding accuracy and reimbursement capture for surgical and procedural care.
- **Quality & Outcomes Optimization** — Analyzes clinical outcomes such as length of stay, readmissions and post-acute spending to guide improvement playbooks.
- **Healthcare Research All-Stars** — An annual initiative and report recognizing hospitals and physicians leading in published healthcare research.

## Achievements

- Named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America
- Raised $12M Series A in March 2022 led by Fulcrum Equity Partners
- Documented client outcomes: $5,900 savings per case, 44% reduction in length of stay, 86% reduction in 90-day readmissions, 49% reduction in post-acute care costs
- Completed rollout of CareMeasurement across all surgical and procedure-based care areas after seven years of development
- Publishes the annual Healthcare Research All-Stars report recognizing top research hospitals and physicians

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Released the 2025 Healthcare Research All-Stars Report recognizing leading research hospitals and physicians.
- **2022-03** — Launched comprehensive surgical care improvement analytics platform and announced $12M Series A funding led by Fulcrum Equity Partners.

## Links

- Website: https://avantgardehealth.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/avant-garde-health
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/avantgarde
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/avantgardehealthofficial

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Last updated: 2026-06-07