Build the Business Case for AI Echo
For the clinical lead taking Us2.ai to a value analysis committee or capital board: the numbers to pull from your own systems, the documents reviewers ask for, and a trial plan that ends in a decision.
Us2.ai business case kit
Pull These Numbers First
The first set goes into the ROI calculator. The second is the baseline a trial is measured against, and it has to be collected before the trial starts.
| Number | Where it usually comes from |
|---|---|
| Annual echo volume | Studies per year from your PACS, RIS or cardiovascular information system worklist report. Pull it by study type (TTE, TEE, stress) and by month, then enter the total for the study types in scope. We confirm which those are for your market. |
| Time per echo today | Average minutes from the start of acquisition to a signed report, sonographer and reader together. Reporting-system timestamps give it directly; a one-week time study works where they do not. |
| Average reimbursement per echo | Blended payment per study across payers and codes, from finance or your revenue cycle team. The calculator's Advanced mode takes the code and payer mix instead. |
| Price per AI echo | From your Us2.ai quote. The calculator seeds an indicative figure so the model runs before you have one. |
In bundled-payment markets (Germany, Netherlands, Japan, India, Taiwan, and Philippines) the calculator values freed capacity instead of added billing, and asks for these in place of reimbursement:
| Sonographer FTE cost | Fully loaded annual cost of one sonographer or cardiac technician, from HR or finance. |
|---|---|
| Productive hours per FTE | Hours worked per year after leave, training and other non-clinical time. |
| Waiting list | Patients waiting for an echo who are inside your contracted volume but not scheduled. |
| Bundle value and contract terms | The DRG, DBC or case-mix value of a cardiac diagnostic episode, and what your payer contract pays on volume above budget. |
| Measure | How to capture it |
|---|---|
| Report turnaround time | Time from study completion to signed report, split inpatient and outpatient. Reporting-system timestamps. |
| Worklist backlog and rollovers | Studies unread at the end of each day and carried to the next. Record it daily, for long enough to cover a normal month. |
| Repeat study rate | Share of studies repeated because the first was incomplete or non-diagnostic. |
| Reader time per report | Minutes from opening a study to signing it. The part of time per echo a trial changes most directly. |
| Measurement edits | How often a reader changes a Us2.ai measurement before signing. It only exists once the trial starts, so agree now how it will be recorded. |
| Staff experience | A short survey of sonographers and readers, the same questions before and after. |
Enter the first set in the ROI calculator, then use Print or save as PDF. The printout carries a link back to your exact inputs.
Assemble the Committee Pack
Each question a reviewer asks already has an answer on this site or from us. This is where to find it, so you are not assembling it from scattered pages and a string of emails.
- Product Summary and Intended Use What does it do, and for which patients?
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The platform overview for the committee, and the Instructions for Use for anyone who wants the cleared intended use in full.
- Regulatory Clearance Is it cleared for this use in our country?
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The clearance or registration for your market, for the base product and for each disease-detection module you are buying, because a module can carry its own. Contact us with your country, intended clinical use and modules, and we send the documentation set that applies there.
- Clinical Evidence Does it work, and on patients like ours?
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The publications for the conditions your department reads most, and the seven questions a reviewer should ask of any AI echo evidence base.
- The Financial Case Does it pay for itself, and on what assumptions?
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Your ROI calculator scenario, printed or saved as a PDF. The printout carries a link that reopens your inputs, so a reviewer can change an assumption instead of asking you to rerun it.
- Security and Privacy Review What happens to our data, and what does IT have to open?
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The IT review checklist and the certificates in the Trust Center. The SOC 2 report and DPA and BAA templates are available on request.
- Integration Plan What changes for IT and for the reading room?
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The integration pathway that fits your stack and the deployment milestones. Tell us your PACS and reporting system with their version numbers, because what Us2.ai can return depends on both.
- Trial Plan How will we know it works here?
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The question the trial answers, the baseline, the participants and the date the committee decides. The steps below cover each one.
- Pricing and Contract Terms What will it cost, and on what terms?
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A quote from us. Us2.ai is priced per echo processed, so the quote scales with the volume you entered in the calculator.
Run a Trial That Ends in a Decision
A trial answers one question for one department. Set it up so the answer is ready on the day the committee meets.
Agree the Question and the Decision
Write down what the trial has to show, who decides, and the date they decide. A trial with no decision date has no end.
BeforeCapture the Baseline
Collect the baseline measures above for your own department before any study reaches Us2.ai. Without them there is nothing to compare against.
BeforeName the Participants
Send us the names and email addresses of the sonographers and physicians taking part, and we set up their access. Include at least one reading physician.
SetupChoose Representative Studies
Use consecutive studies from ordinary lists, not a hand-picked set, so the image quality and patient mix are the ones you see every day.
SetupRun Alongside Your Workflow
Studies route to Us2.ai in parallel while your existing reporting continues, so nothing changes in production until you decide.
DuringCompare, Then Decide
Measure the same things with the same definitions as the baseline. Bring the comparison, the staff survey, and the ROI scenario rerun with your measured time to the decision meeting.
AfterA trial measures workflow, not diagnostic accuracy
A trial in one department shows what changes in reporting time, turnaround and backlog. It is too small to establish diagnostic performance, and it should not go to a committee as if it did. That is what the published validation studies are for. In a trial as in routine use, Us2.ai produces a draft report and the reading physician reviews it, edits it where needed, and signs it.
Frequently Asked Questions
The questions champions ask while preparing a committee submission.
What clinical data should we pull for the business case?
Can we export the ROI calculator results?
How do we get trial logins for our clinicians?
Can a trial prove diagnostic accuracy?
Where are the regulatory clearance documents?
Is the pack different outside the United States?
A committee decides on evidence it can check.
Plan Your Trial With Us
Tell us about your department and your committee's timetable. We will help you set the baseline, choose the studies and prepare the pack.