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Guidepoint

Guidepoint Data was launched in 2016 to offer quantitative insights into a broad array of industries. Data products range from raw data feeds to primary data to custom data and analytics. The team continues to build out new products and expand coverage to complement Guidepoint’s leading phone consultation, event and survey offerings. These alternative data-driven products provide clients with a unique understanding of sector and individual company performance. Guidepoint Data has focused on building an alternative data offering to complement its existing high-valued primary data products (Guidepoint TRACKER). This continuously expanding catalogue spans the healthcare, travel, and commercial vehicle movement sectors. Our flagship product, the Qsight hospital purchasing dataset, is built from proprietary data compiled from nearly one-third of all U.S. hospitals. This dataset provides investors, manufacturers and consulting firms with unprecedented, near real-time insight into the monthly purchasing of U.S. hospital consumables, medical devices and other physician preference items.
Subscription Details 
Subscriptions are annual.  We provide access to historical data sample products for evaluation.
Update Granularity 
The temporal granularity of the data is to the transaction month and year.
Downloadable Assets
None
Price 
All access to all products is $100k+, individual product pricing is variable and can be provided upon request.
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Collection Methodology 
Transaction-level medical device purchasing data are acquired by our data partner who provides analytics services to member healthcare institutions.  These data are aggregated and anonymized to provide insights into healthcare purchasing trends within several specialized medical device markets.  Upon receiving weekly deliveries of these transactions, our team conducts extensive cleansing, outlier removal, ticker mapping, and projections to manufacturer revenue, which we then deliver to our clients.
Regional Coverage 
Coverage consists of US healthcare institutions, broken down into Northeast, South, West, and Midwest regions.
History 
History begins January 2010.
Cadence 
Data are delivered to clients on a weekly basis at 8AM every Tuesday.
Themes Covered 
Healthcare, medical devices
Known Biases 
This dataset is derived solely from US healthcare institutions but is unbiased with regard to facility size and US geographic distribution.  Transactions primarily originate from long term care and larger acute care facilities.
Granularity of Data 
The Qsight hospital purchasing dataset provides fields for SKU, product description, manufacturer, ticker symbol, revenue division, vendor, units purchased, price paid, and anonymized purchasing institution.
Sectors / Companies 
This dataset covers the medical device market within the healthcare sector.  Companies covered include Abiomed, Atricure, Boston Scientific, Cardiovascular Systems, ConMed, Edwards Lifesciences, Intersect Ent, Intuitive Surgical, Merit Medical Systems, Penumbra, SI-Bone, Smith & Nephew, Stryker, Wright Medical, and Zimmer Biomet.