HealthTrust Performance Group™ (HealthTrust) announced the launch of Signal, an AI-powered intelligence platform that continuously synthesizes data from multiple sources—with the goal of empowering healthcare leaders to uncover opportunities, identify risks and take informed, measurable actions quickly.

Healthcare organizations are managing an increasing volume of data across fragmented systems, making it difficult to generate timely insights and act with confidence. With a membership spanning more than 1,900 hospitals, including eight of the largest 15 health systems, HealthTrust is uniquely positioned to understand and address this challenge with insights across purchasing activity, contract performance, cost trends and operational outcomes.

Signal brings HealthTrust’s mission of making missions possible into the data layer, transforming fragmented information into clear direction healthcare leaders can use to strengthen performance, reduce risk and act with greater confidence.

Drawing on this breadth and scale of intelligence, Signal unifies data, analytics and workflows into a connected ecosystem that transforms complexity into curated insights, proactive alerts and prescriptive recommendations, all aimed at helping organizations make more informed decisions, improve performance and drive measurable value across their operations.

Exclusive to HealthTrust members and included with the membership, Signal:

• Unifies Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), operational, contract, pricing, catalog, formulary and purchasing data into one platform.
• Integrates clinical product insights, market trends, emerging technologies and product shifts—including new introductions and substitutions.
• Analyzes spend, variance drivers, contracts, pricing and financial impact to reveal what is driving performance.
• Helps surface emerging risks, opportunities and events that require attention.
• Delivers clear recommendations, executive summaries and guided actions to help accelerate decision-making.

To go deeper into core functional areas, HealthTrust offers members these add-on platforms:

• Crimson AI, powered by HealthTrust – modular cost and quality analytics platform that is designed to enable reducing total cost of care, eliminate unwarranted variation and drive evidence-based product evaluation decisions.
• Valify – purchased services analytics, contract tracking and benchmarking, and spend, pricing, utilization and compliance analysis to help identify savings opportunities, improve transparency and eliminate contract leakage.
• SurgIntel – medical device analytics to provide visibility to custom sourcing and contracting opportunities.

“There have always been valuable stories buried within disconnected data and patterns that traditional reporting cannot fully surface,” said Cody King, Chief Product Officer of HealthTrust Performance Group. “Signal helps unlock these insights—delivering meaningful, relevant and actionable intelligence that can be truly transformative for users. It is designed to significantly reduce the time and effort once required for human analysis and intuition to connect seemingly unrelated data points.”

See the Hidden, Shape Your Future
Signal delivers proactive alerts that surface actionable opportunities and risks for each organization, identifying savings opportunities, financial exposures and operational challenges before they escalate. Signal prioritizes these insights and provides tailored recommendations, with the aim of enabling teams to focus on the initiatives that can deliver the greatest operational and financial impact.

“One of the biggest challenges in healthcare is turning information into aligned action,” said Aashish Shah, M.D., JD, SVP & Chief Medical Officer at HealthTrust. “Signal helps organizations identify, visualize and prioritize the opportunities that matter most, creating a shared understanding across clinical, operational and financial teams. By aligning stakeholders around the same insights, organizations can make confident decisions, act more decisively and drive meaningful improvements in cost and performance.”

Success From Signal’s Pilot
HealthTrust has piloted Signal with 17 leading health systems within its membership, allowing them to experience firsthand how the platform surfaced opportunities for proactive organizational improvement.

"Signal reduces our need to manually stitch together siloed data and we believe it will fundamentally improve how quickly our teams can act on cost and supply variation," said Amy Yazbeck, Supply Chain CEO, HCA Healthcare, Tristar Division.

“Signal represents an important evolution in how HealthTrust delivers value to members,” said Patrick Lowry, Vice President, Customer Solutions, HealthTrust. “This goes beyond the launch of a new platform, it creates a foundation for how we will continue to connect our expertise, data and solutions to help members navigate an increasingly complex healthcare environment and unlock new opportunities to drive value.”