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Platform & Features

What is the ClearSight Platform?

ClearSight is a commercial intelligence platform built specifically for the MedTech industry. It combines physician, facility, residency, fellowship, faculty, procedure, and market intelligence into a single connected platform, helping Sales, Marketing, Medical Education, and Commercial Analytics teams identify opportunities earlier and make better commercial decisions.

Unlike traditional healthcare databases that only report historical activity, ClearSight connects where physicians trained, who influenced them, where they practice, what procedures they perform, and how markets are evolving—giving commercial teams the context needed to identify future growth opportunities.

What can I search for in ClearSight?

ClearSight allows you to search across the complete MedTech commercial ecosystem, including:

  • Physicians
  • Hospitals
  • Health Systems
  • Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs)
  • Office-Based Labs (OBLs)
  • Residency Programs
  • Fellowship Programs
  • Faculty
  • Current Residents & Fellows
  • Alumni
  • Procedures
  • Markets
  • Geographic Territories

Every search is connected to the broader commercial landscape, allowing you to move seamlessly between physicians, facilities, training programs, and market analytics.

What specialties does ClearSight cover?

ClearSight supports the major procedural specialties relevant to the MedTech industry, with coverage continuing to expand as new markets are added.

Current specialty coverage includes:

  • Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Interventional Cardiology
  • Electrophysiology
  • Structural Heart
  • Vascular Surgery
  • Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • Interventional Radiology
  • Diagnostic Radiology
  • Neurosurgery
  • Neurology
  • Neurointerventional Surgery
  • Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Adult Reconstruction
  • Sports Medicine
  • Shoulder & Elbow
  • Hand Surgery
  • Foot & Ankle
  • Trauma
  • Spine Surgery
  • Pain Medicine
  • Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
  • General Surgery
  • Colorectal Surgery
  • Surgical Oncology
  • Urology
  • Urologic Oncology
  • Gynecologic Oncology
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Gastroenterology
  • Pulmonary & Critical Care
  • Nephrology
  • Otolaryngology (ENT)
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Ophthalmology
  • Dermatology
  • Anesthesiology
  • Emergency Medicine

Each specialty includes commercially relevant physician, facility, educational, and procedural intelligence designed specifically for MedTech commercialization.

Why does ClearSight organize physicians using Procedure Groups instead of CPT codes?

CPT codes were designed for medical billing—not commercial strategy.

Most MedTech markets span dozens or even hundreds of CPT codes, making it difficult to identify physicians performing a particular therapy or procedure.

ClearSight normalizes related CPT codes into clinically and commercially meaningful Procedure Groups. This allows users to search by market, therapy, or technology instead of individual billing codes, making physician targeting significantly faster and more accurate.

How do I find physicians performing the procedures I’m interested in?

Simply select one or more Procedure Groups and refine your search using geography, specialty, years in practice, industry affiliations, health system, relationship strength, or territory.

Because ClearSight has already organized raw claims into commercial procedure groups, there’s no need to know individual CPT codes or manually combine multiple billing codes to identify your target physicians.

How does ClearSight identify a physician’s primary facility?

Many physicians perform procedures at multiple hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and office-based labs.

Rather than relying solely on self-reported affiliations, ClearSight analyzes procedure activity over time to determine where physicians perform the majority of their clinical work.

This provides a more accurate representation of physician activity and helps commercial teams focus on the facilities where physicians are most actively practicing.

What is Relationship Strength?

Relationship Strength allows organizations to classify existing commercial relationships with physicians and facilities.

Whether you’re tracking highly engaged customers, emerging relationships, or entirely new prospects, Relationship Strength helps prioritize outreach, identify whitespace opportunities, and coordinate activity across Sales, Marketing, and Medical Education teams.

How does ClearSight determine Industry Affiliations?

Industry Affiliations identify commercial relationships between physicians, facilities, health systems, and participating organizations.

These affiliations provide valuable context when evaluating physician engagement, educational partnerships, customer relationships, and commercial opportunities across a market.

What is Territory Rank?

Territory Rank helps sales organizations prioritize the physicians and facilities that represent the greatest commercial opportunity within a defined territory.

Rather than reviewing hundreds of accounts equally, Territory Rank highlights the accounts most likely to impact commercial performance based on clinical activity and other commercial indicators.

What information is available in a physician profile?

Every physician profile combines multiple sources of commercial intelligence into a single view.

Depending on your subscription, profiles may include:

  • Procedure volumes
  • Procedure trends
  • Procedure mix
  • Primary practice locations
  • Facility affiliations
  • OR schedules
  • Publications
  • Clinical trials
  • Career timeline
  • Industry affiliations
  • Commercial relationship status
  • Notes & customer interactions

The result is a complete commercial profile that helps teams prepare for every customer interaction.

What information is available in a facility profile?

Facility profiles provide a comprehensive commercial view of hospitals, ASCs, OBLs, and other sites of care.

Information may include:

  • Procedure volume
  • Procedure growth
  • Procedure mix
  • Payer mix
  • Affiliated physicians
  • Specialty composition
  • Industry relationships
  • Research activity
  • Territory ranking

These insights help commercial teams identify high-value accounts, understand local markets, and prioritize strategic investments.

What analytics are available in ClearSight?

ClearSight provides built-in commercial analytics that help users understand physician activity, facility performance, and market dynamics.

Available analytics include:

  • Procedure trends
  • Procedure growth
  • Procedure mix
  • Geographic distribution
  • Facility type distribution
  • Payer mix
  • Specialty composition
  • Market comparisons

Analytics are available directly within the platform, eliminating the need for separate reporting tools for many day-to-day commercial questions.

Can I export my search results?

Yes.

Search results, physician lists, facility lists, and many analytics can be exported for reporting, territory planning, account reviews, executive presentations, and downstream analysis.

Exports respect the filters you’ve applied, allowing you to quickly generate highly targeted datasets without additional data manipulation.

How often is the data updated?

ClearSight continuously refreshes its commercial intelligence as new information becomes available.

Because different datasets evolve at different rates, each follows its own update cadence:

  • Graduate placement data is updated weekly, helping you identify when residents and fellows establish their first practice.
  • Procedure volumes are updated quarterly, providing a consistent view of physician and facility activity over time.
  • Publications and clinical trials are updated monthly, ensuring the latest academic and research activity is reflected within physician profiles.

This multi-source refresh strategy ensures every dataset is updated at the cadence that best reflects how that information changes in the real world.

What makes ClearSight different from traditional healthcare databases?

Traditional healthcare databases tell you what happened.

ClearSight helps you understand why it happened—and what is likely to happen next.

By combining commercial claims, physician education, faculty influence, career progression, graduate placement, facility intelligence, publications, clinical trials, and market analytics into one connected commercial data model, ClearSight gives MedTech organizations a level of visibility that isn’t available from claims data alone.

Instead of simply identifying today’s high-volume physicians, ClearSight helps you discover tomorrow’s commercial opportunities before they become obvious to the rest of the market.

Fellow Intelligence

What is Fellow Intelligence?

Fellow Intelligence is ClearSight’s proprietary dataset that tracks physicians throughout residency and fellowship, providing MedTech organizations with visibility into the next generation of procedural specialists before they enter independent practice.

By connecting trainees to their residency programs, fellowship programs, faculty mentors, alumni networks, and eventual practice locations, ClearSight helps commercial teams engage physicians earlier than traditional commercial data allows.

Why should MedTech companies track fellows before they graduate?

For many specialties, the purchasing preferences, procedural techniques, and industry relationships that influence a physician’s career begin during training—not after they enter practice.

By the time physicians begin appearing in commercial claims data, many key educational and industry relationships have already been established.

Tracking fellows allows Medical Education, Marketing, and Sales teams to build relationships before competitors and remain connected as physicians transition into practice.

What residency and fellowship programs does ClearSight cover?

ClearSight tracks more than 5,000 residency and fellowship programs across the United States, spanning the major procedural specialties served by the MedTech industry.

Coverage includes academic medical centers, teaching hospitals, community-based programs, military training programs, and integrated training pathways.

Programs are continuously maintained to reflect changes in faculty, trainees, and graduating classes.

Which fellowship specialties does ClearSight track?

ClearSight tracks fellows across the major MedTech procedural specialties, including:

  • Interventional Cardiology
  • Electrophysiology
  • Structural Heart
  • Vascular Surgery
  • Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • Interventional Radiology
  • Diagnostic Radiology
  • Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Adult Reconstruction
  • Spine Surgery
  • Sports Medicine
  • Hand Surgery
  • Shoulder & Elbow
  • Foot & Ankle
  • Trauma
  • Neurosurgery
  • Neurointerventional Surgery
  • Neurology
  • Gastroenterology
  • Pulmonary & Critical Care
  • General Surgery
  • Urology
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Otolaryngology (ENT)
  • Ophthalmology
  • Pain Medicine
  • Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Coverage continues to expand as new markets and specialties are added.

How does ClearSight identify current fellows?

ClearSight continuously researches residency and fellowship programs using multiple public and proprietary sources to build comprehensive trainee rosters.

Each trainee is verified, linked to their training program, specialty, expected graduation year, and educational history to create a longitudinal record that follows them into practice.

How does ClearSight track physicians after graduation?

One of ClearSight’s core differentiators is its ability to connect fellows to their first practice.

Graduate placement data is updated weekly, allowing commercial teams to identify when newly trained physicians establish practice and begin performing procedures.

Rather than losing visibility when physicians leave training, ClearSight follows them throughout the earliest stages of their careers.

How accurate is graduate placement data?

Graduate placement information is continuously researched and validated using multiple sources before appearing within the platform.

Because physician careers often change rapidly during the months surrounding graduation, placement records are updated on a weekly basis to reflect the most current information available.

What information is included in a fellow profile?

Each fellow profile brings together educational and commercial intelligence in one place.

Depending on your subscription, profiles may include:

  • Residency program
  • Fellowship program
  • Specialty
  • Graduation year
  • Faculty mentors
  • Alumni connections
  • Research publications
  • Clinical trials
  • Awards and leadership positions
  • Future practice placement
  • Career timeline
Can I search for graduating fellows?

Yes.

ClearSight allows you to identify trainees by expected graduation year, specialty, program, geography, faculty relationships, and many other filters.

This enables Medical Education and Sales teams to proactively engage physicians before they enter independent practice.

Can I receive alerts when fellows graduate or establish practice?

Yes.

ClearSight provides graduate placement alerts that notify users when physicians complete training and establish their first practice.

These alerts help commercial teams transition educational relationships into long-term commercial engagement without manual tracking.

How are fellows connected to faculty and alumni?

Every fellow is linked to the educational environment in which they trained.

ClearSight maps relationships between trainees, faculty mentors, residency programs, fellowship programs, and alumni, allowing organizations to understand how educational influence extends throughout a physician’s career.

These relationships often provide valuable context for Medical Education strategy, KOL development, and future commercial engagement.

Can I identify alumni from specific residency or fellowship programs?

Yes.

ClearSight maintains longitudinal alumni records that allow users to search for graduates from individual training programs and understand where they ultimately establish practice.

This helps organizations evaluate program influence, identify emerging physician networks, and measure the long-term impact of educational investments.

Why is longitudinal physician tracking important?

Most commercial databases begin tracking physicians only after they appear in claims data.

ClearSight begins much earlier.

By connecting medical school (where available), residency, fellowship, faculty relationships, alumni networks, graduate placement, and eventual clinical activity, ClearSight provides a complete physician journey rather than a snapshot of current practice.

How is Fellow Intelligence used by MedTech organizations?

Different commercial teams use Fellow Intelligence in different ways:

  • Medical Education identifies the right fellows, faculty, and programs for educational initiatives.
  • Sales builds relationships before physicians begin independent practice.
  • Marketing identifies emerging physician segments and future market leaders.
  • Commercial Analytics measures program influence and predicts future market development.

Because all teams work from the same underlying dataset, educational and commercial strategies remain aligned throughout the physician lifecycle.

What makes ClearSight’s Fellow Intelligence different?

Most healthcare datasets begin once physicians start billing procedures.

ClearSight begins years earlier.

By tracking physicians throughout residency, fellowship, graduate placement, faculty relationships, alumni networks, publications, and career progression, ClearSight gives MedTech organizations visibility into future commercial opportunity before it appears in traditional healthcare data.

That means you can identify tomorrow’s high-value physicians while competitors are still waiting for claims data to tell them who matters.

Physician Intelligence

What is Physician Intelligence?

Physician Intelligence is ClearSight’s proprietary dataset of academic physicians who educate, mentor, and influence the next generation of specialists.

By connecting faculty members to residency programs, fellowship programs, trainees, alumni, research activity, and clinical practice, ClearSight helps MedTech organizations identify the physicians who shape future procedural adoption long before those influences appear in commercial data.

Why is physician intelligence important for MedTech?

Faculty members influence far more than clinical education.

They help shape procedural techniques, introduce new technologies, mentor future Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), lead clinical research, and often influence purchasing decisions within their institutions.

Understanding who trains tomorrow’s physicians helps commercial teams identify where future market influence begins.

Which faculty members does ClearSight track?

ClearSight tracks faculty across residency and fellowship programs throughout the United States.

Coverage includes:

  • Program Directors
  • Associate Program Directors
  • Fellowship Directors
  • Department Chairs
  • Core Faculty
  • Clinical Faculty
  • Teaching Faculty
  • Attending Physicians affiliated with training programs

Faculty profiles are linked directly to their associated residency and fellowship programs.

What information is included in a faculty profile?

Faculty profiles combine educational, clinical, research, and commercial intelligence into one comprehensive view.

Depending on your subscription, profiles may include:

  • Academic appointments
  • Program affiliations
  • Department leadership roles
  • Teaching responsibilities
  • Clinical specialties
  • Procedure activity
  • Publications
  • Clinical trials
  • Hospital affiliations
  • Alumni relationships
  • Current trainees
  • Historical trainees

This provides a complete understanding of each faculty member’s educational and commercial influence.

How does ClearSight identify faculty members?

ClearSight continuously researches accredited residency and fellowship programs to identify teaching physicians and academic leadership.

Faculty records are validated using multiple public and proprietary sources and connected to the residency and fellowship programs where they actively teach.

Can I search faculty by specialty?

Yes.

Faculty can be searched and filtered by:

  • Specialty
  • Subspecialty
  • Institution
  • Residency Program
  • Fellowship Program
  • Hospital
  • Geography
  • Academic Role
  • Research Activity
  • Clinical Trial Participation

This allows commercial teams to quickly identify educational leaders within any market.

Can I identify Program Directors and Fellowship Directors?

Yes.

ClearSight identifies Program Directors, Fellowship Directors, Associate Directors, and other leadership positions across residency and fellowship programs.

These physicians often play a significant role in shaping educational strategy and influencing physician adoption throughout training.

How are faculty connected to fellows and residents?

Every faculty member is linked to the residency and fellowship programs where they teach.

This allows users to understand:

  • Which physicians they train
  • Which specialties they influence
  • Alumni who trained under them
  • Historical educational relationships

These connections provide valuable context when evaluating educational influence across physician networks.

Can I identify faculty who have trained high-performing alumni?

Yes.

Because ClearSight maintains longitudinal physician career data, users can evaluate where alumni establish practice after training.

This allows organizations to identify faculty and programs that consistently produce commercially important physicians and future leaders within their specialties.

Can I search faculty by publications or clinical trials?

Yes.

Faculty profiles include research activity that may include:

  • Peer-reviewed publications
  • Clinical trial participation
  • Principal Investigator roles
  • Research interests
  • Academic productivity

These insights help identify academic leaders and physicians driving innovation within their specialties.

How can Medical Education teams use Physician Intelligence?

Medical Education teams use Physician Intelligence to:

  • Identify influential educators
  • Prioritize educational partnerships
  • Select faculty for advisory boards
  • Support fellowship initiatives
  • Build long-term educational relationships
  • Measure educational reach

Rather than selecting faculty based solely on reputation, organizations can use objective educational and commercial intelligence.

How can Sales and Marketing teams use Physician Intelligence?

Faculty members often become some of the most influential physicians within a commercial market.

Sales and Marketing teams use Physician Intelligence to:

  • Identify emerging Key Opinion Leaders
  • Understand educational influence
  • Prioritize academic medical centers
  • Build relationships with teaching physicians
  • Support product launches
  • Expand commercial networks

Because faculty influence extends well beyond their own clinical practice, these relationships often have lasting commercial value.

How does Physician Intelligence support KOL identification?

Traditional KOL identification focuses primarily on publications or procedure volume.

ClearSight expands this view by incorporating educational influence.

Users can identify physicians who:

  • Train future specialists
  • Lead residency or fellowship programs
  • Publish research
  • Participate in clinical trials
  • Maintain extensive alumni networks
  • Hold leadership positions within academic institutions

This creates a more complete picture of physician influence.

How is Physician Intelligence connected to Fellow Intelligence?

Physician Intelligence and Fellow Intelligence are fully integrated.

Every faculty profile is connected to the residency and fellowship programs where physicians teach, along with the trainees and alumni associated with those programs.

This allows users to understand not only who today’s faculty are, but also how their educational influence extends throughout future physician careers.

What makes ClearSight’s Physician Intelligence different?

Most healthcare databases focus on practicing physicians.

ClearSight also captures the physicians who shape future clinical practice.

By combining faculty appointments, educational leadership, trainee relationships, alumni networks, clinical activity, research, and commercial intelligence into one connected dataset, ClearSight helps MedTech organizations identify educational influence that cannot be found in claims data alone.

Understanding who trains tomorrow’s physicians provides a powerful advantage when building Medical Education strategies, identifying emerging KOLs, and developing long-term commercial relationships.

Facility Intelligence

What is Facility Intelligence?

Facility Intelligence is ClearSight’s proprietary dataset of residency and fellowship training programs that helps MedTech organizations understand which institutions are producing tomorrow’s commercially important physicians.

Rather than evaluating physicians individually, Facility Intelligence allows you to analyze entire training programs based on their faculty, trainees, alumni, graduate placement, procedure expertise, research activity, and long-term commercial influence.

Why should MedTech companies track residency and fellowship programs?

Long before physicians establish independent practices, they’re shaped by the institutions where they train.

Residency and fellowship programs influence procedural techniques, technology exposure, faculty mentorship, research participation, and future professional networks. By understanding which programs consistently produce leaders within a specialty, commercial teams can make smarter investments in education, training, and relationship development.

What residency and fellowship programs does ClearSight cover?

ClearSight tracks more than 5,000 accredited residency and fellowship programs across the United States.

Coverage includes:

  • Academic Medical Centers
  • Teaching Hospitals
  • Community-Based Programs
  • Military Programs
  • Integrated Residency Programs
  • Independent Fellowship Programs

Each program is continuously maintained with current faculty, trainees, alumni, and educational leadership.

What information is included in a program profile?

Each program profile provides a comprehensive view of the educational ecosystem surrounding a residency or fellowship program.

Depending on your subscription, profiles may include:

  • Program overview
  • Faculty roster
  • Program leadership
  • Current trainees
  • Alumni
  • Graduate placement
  • Teaching hospitals
  • Clinical affiliates
  • Research activity
  • Clinical trials
  • Specialty information
  • Accreditation status

Program profiles help commercial teams understand both the current training environment and the long-term impact of each institution.

Can I compare residency and fellowship programs?

Yes.

ClearSight allows users to compare programs across a variety of educational and commercial metrics, helping organizations identify which institutions best align with their educational and commercial objectives.

Programs can be evaluated based on:

  • Specialty
  • Geography
  • Faculty
  • Alumni
  • Graduate placement
  • Research activity
  • Clinical trial participation
  • Institutional affiliations
How does ClearSight track graduate placement?

ClearSight follows physicians as they transition from residency or fellowship into independent practice.

Graduate placement data is updated weekly, allowing users to see where newly trained physicians establish practice shortly after graduation.

This longitudinal tracking provides visibility that traditional healthcare databases typically cannot offer.

Can I see where a program’s graduates go after training?

Yes.

Every program includes alumni intelligence that helps organizations understand where graduates establish practice after completing training.

Users can identify:

  • Practice locations
  • Hospitals
  • Health systems
  • Geographic distribution
  • Career progression

This helps measure the long-term influence of individual residency and fellowship programs.

Can I identify programs producing future Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs)?

Yes.

Because ClearSight tracks faculty, trainees, alumni, research activity, clinical trials, and career progression, organizations can identify programs that consistently produce physicians who become influential educators, researchers, procedural specialists, and commercial leaders.

Rather than relying solely on reputation, Facility Intelligence provides objective insights into long-term educational influence.

How can Medical Education teams use Facility Intelligence?

Medical Education teams use Facility Intelligence to:

  • Identify high-impact residency and fellowship programs
  • Prioritize educational investments
  • Select training sites
  • Build faculty partnerships
  • Support fellowship initiatives
  • Evaluate educational reach
  • Measure long-term program influence

This helps ensure educational resources are invested where they can have the greatest impact.

How can Marketing teams use Facility Intelligence?

Marketing teams use Facility Intelligence to better understand where future markets are being shaped.

By identifying influential training programs, faculty, and graduating physicians, marketing organizations can:

  • Support product launches
  • Develop KOL strategies
  • Prioritize educational campaigns
  • Identify emerging physician segments
  • Build awareness earlier in physician careers
How can Sales teams use Facility Intelligence?

Sales teams use Facility Intelligence to identify where future customer relationships begin.

Rather than waiting for physicians to appear in claims data, representatives can understand which programs are producing future specialists entering their territories and begin building relationships through educational engagement.

This supports more proactive territory planning and long-term account development.

Can I search for programs by specialty or location?

Yes.

Programs can be searched using a variety of filters, including:

  • Specialty
  • State
  • City
  • Institution
  • Teaching Hospital
  • Program Type
  • Accreditation Status
  • Graduation Year
  • Faculty
  • Program Name

These filters make it easy to identify programs that align with specific commercial objectives.

How are residency and fellowship programs connected to faculty and alumni?

Facility Intelligence brings together every major component of a training program into one connected view.

Each program links directly to:

  • Faculty members
  • Program Directors
  • Fellowship Directors
  • Current residents and fellows
  • Alumni
  • Teaching hospitals
  • Clinical affiliates
  • Research activity

This allows organizations to understand how educational influence extends far beyond a single institution.

How is Facility Intelligence different from a residency directory?

Traditional residency directories primarily provide contact information and basic program descriptions.

ClearSight transforms residency and fellowship programs into commercial intelligence.

Instead of simply listing programs, ClearSight connects each institution to its faculty, trainees, alumni, graduate placement, research activity, teaching hospitals, and commercial influence—providing a much deeper understanding of why certain programs matter to MedTech organizations.

What makes ClearSight’s Facility Intelligence different?

Most healthcare datasets begin after physicians enter clinical practice.

ClearSight begins where physician careers are shaped.

By combining residency and fellowship programs, faculty relationships, trainee rosters, alumni outcomes, graduate placement, research activity, and career progression into a single connected dataset, ClearSight helps MedTech organizations identify the institutions driving future commercial success.

Instead of asking, “Who are today’s highest-volume physicians?”, Facility Intelligence helps answer a more strategic question: “Which training programs are producing tomorrow’s highest-value physicians?”

Data & Methodology

Where does ClearSight get its data?

ClearSight combines data from a wide range of public, licensed, and proprietary sources to create a single commercial intelligence platform for MedTech organizations.

Our data ecosystem includes:

  • Medical claims
  • Hospital and facility data
  • Residency and fellowship programs
  • Faculty appointments
  • Graduate placement
  • Physician affiliations
  • Publications
  • Clinical trials
  • Professional society information
  • Government datasets
  • Commercial reference data

Rather than exposing these datasets individually, ClearSight engineers them into a connected commercial data model that allows users to analyze physicians, facilities, programs, and markets together.

How does ClearSight identify physicians across multiple datasets?

One physician often appears differently across multiple data sources due to name variations, credential differences, organizational affiliations, and incomplete identifiers.

ClearSight uses a proprietary identity resolution process to normalize physician records into a single longitudinal profile, connecting information across clinical, educational, research, and commercial datasets.

This reduces duplicate records and creates a more complete picture of every physician throughout their career.

Why doesn’t ClearSight rely on raw CPT codes?

Raw CPT codes were created for reimbursement—not commercial analysis.

Most therapies require dozens or hundreds of individual CPT codes, making market analysis difficult and inconsistent.

ClearSight organizes related CPT codes into commercially engineered Procedure Groups that reflect how MedTech organizations think about therapies, technologies, and markets.

This allows users to analyze markets using meaningful clinical groupings rather than individual billing codes.

What are Procedure Groups?

Procedure Groups are ClearSight’s proprietary commercial classification system that organizes related CPT procedures into clinically meaningful categories.

Rather than searching hundreds of billing codes, users can analyze physicians and facilities by therapy area or procedure category.

Procedure Groups make physician targeting, territory planning, market sizing, and competitive analysis significantly more intuitive.

How does ClearSight determine where a physician practices?

Physicians frequently work at multiple hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and office-based labs.

Rather than relying solely on self-reported affiliations, ClearSight analyzes clinical procedure activity to determine where physicians are actively practicing.

This provides a more accurate representation of physician activity across the healthcare system.

How does ClearSight determine a physician’s primary facility?

A physician’s primary facility is determined by evaluating where they perform the largest share of their procedural activity over time.

This methodology reflects where physicians are most clinically active rather than simply listing every hospital with which they have an affiliation.

For commercial teams, this provides a more accurate understanding of where customer engagement should be focused.

How does ClearSight track physician career progression?

ClearSight builds longitudinal physician profiles that connect multiple stages of a physician’s career.

Depending on the specialty and available data, career progression may include:

  • Medical education
  • Residency
  • Fellowship
  • Faculty appointments
  • Graduate placement
  • Clinical practice
  • Research activity
  • Career transitions

This longitudinal approach helps organizations understand not just where physicians are today, but how they arrived there.

How does ClearSight track graduate placement?

Graduate placement is one of ClearSight’s proprietary datasets.

We continuously research graduating residents and fellows to identify where they establish their first practice after training.

Placement data is updated weekly, allowing organizations to identify newly practicing physicians as they enter the commercial market.

How often is ClearSight data updated?

Different datasets change at different rates, so each follows its own refresh schedule.

Current update cadences include:

  • Graduate placement: Weekly
  • Procedure volumes: Quarterly
  • Publications: Monthly
  • Clinical trials: Monthly

Additional datasets—including physician profiles, facility information, residency and fellowship programs, faculty, and organizational relationships—are continuously maintained as new information becomes available.

How does ClearSight validate its data?

Every dataset undergoes multiple quality assurance processes before it is incorporated into the platform.

These processes include:

  • Automated validation
  • Cross-source reconciliation
  • Identity resolution
  • Duplicate detection
  • Data normalization
  • Manual quality review where appropriate

Because no single healthcare dataset is complete on its own, validation across multiple sources is essential to maintaining commercial accuracy.

How does ClearSight handle physician name changes and duplicate records?

Healthcare data often contains duplicate physician records caused by name variations, credential changes, middle initials, suffixes, and inconsistent identifiers.

ClearSight applies proprietary identity resolution techniques to merge these records into a unified physician profile while preserving historical career information.

This helps ensure users are evaluating complete physician histories rather than fragmented records.

Does ClearSight include Office-Based Labs (OBLs) and Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs)?

Yes.

ClearSight tracks physicians and procedures performed across multiple sites of care, including:

  • Hospitals
  • Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs)
  • Office-Based Labs (OBLs)

Understanding where procedures are shifting across sites of care is essential for commercial planning, territory design, and market opportunity assessment.

Can I analyze historical procedure trends?

Yes.

ClearSight includes historical procedure activity that allows users to evaluate market growth, physician adoption, facility trends, and changes in procedural volume over time.

Historical trend analysis helps commercial teams understand how markets are evolving and identify emerging opportunities.

Why doesn’t claims data tell the whole commercial story?

Claims data is an incredibly valuable source of market intelligence—but it only captures activity after patient care has occurred.

It does not explain:

  • Where physicians trained
  • Who taught them
  • Which faculty influenced them
  • How they entered practice
  • Which educational networks shaped their careers
  • Why they adopted certain procedures or technologies

ClearSight complements claims data by connecting it with educational, research, and career progression data, providing a much more complete understanding of commercial opportunity.

What makes ClearSight’s commercial data model different?

Most healthcare databases deliver individual datasets.

ClearSight delivers a connected commercial intelligence model.

Instead of asking customers to reconcile physician identities, normalize CPT codes, connect faculty to trainees, track graduate placement, and integrate multiple external datasets, ClearSight performs that engineering on your behalf.

The result is a unified commercial intelligence platform that enables Sales, Marketing, Medical Education, and Commercial Analytics teams to work from the same trusted foundation.

Integrations & Security

Can ClearSight integrate with our CRM?

Yes.

ClearSight is designed to fit into your existing commercial technology stack—not replace it.

Many organizations integrate ClearSight intelligence into CRM platforms so Sales, Marketing, and Commercial Operations teams can access physician and market intelligence within their existing workflows.

Common integration scenarios include:

  • Salesforce
  • Veeva CRM
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • Custom CRM platforms

Integration options vary depending on your organization’s implementation requirements.

Can ClearSight integrate with our Business Intelligence platform?

Yes.

Commercial intelligence can be delivered directly into your organization’s preferred analytics environment.

Many customers integrate ClearSight with platforms including:

  • Tableau
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • SQL-based reporting environments
  • Enterprise data warehouses

This allows commercial teams to combine ClearSight intelligence with internal sales, marketing, and financial data for advanced reporting and analysis.

Does ClearSight offer APIs?

Yes.

ClearSight provides secure APIs that allow organizations to integrate commercial intelligence into internal applications, dashboards, CRM systems, and enterprise workflows.

API access enables customers to automate data delivery and incorporate ClearSight intelligence into their existing commercial ecosystem.

Can ClearSight deliver data through multiple formats?

Yes.

Depending on your implementation, commercial intelligence can be delivered through:

  • The ClearSight web application
  • REST APIs
  • Scheduled data exports
  • Business Intelligence platforms
  • CRM integrations
  • Custom enterprise workflows

This flexibility allows organizations to consume data in the way that best supports their commercial operations.

Where is ClearSight hosted?

ClearSight is a cloud-native application hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The platform uses managed AWS services designed to provide enterprise-grade security, scalability, availability, and operational resilience. Production environments are deployed using a layered cloud architecture that separates user access, application services, operational data, and analytics workloads.

How does ClearSight protect customer data?

Security is built into every layer of the ClearSight platform.

Key security controls include:

  • Encrypted data in transit using TLS
  • Encryption at rest for managed data stores
  • Multi-layer authentication and authorization
  • Network isolation
  • Private application infrastructure
  • Continuous access controls
  • AWS-managed security services

These controls help protect customer data while supporting secure enterprise deployments.

How are users authenticated?

ClearSight uses Amazon Cognito for identity management and user authentication.

After successful authentication, users receive secure authentication tokens that are validated on every request before access is granted to platform resources. This centralized identity model helps enforce consistent authentication and authorization across the application.

Is data encrypted?

Yes.

ClearSight protects customer data using encryption both in transit and at rest.

  • All communication with the platform is encrypted using TLS.
  • Data stored within managed AWS services is encrypted at rest.
  • Access to data is governed through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls.
How is the ClearSight network secured?

ClearSight uses a layered network security architecture hosted within AWS.

Security measures include:

  • Dedicated Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)
  • Network isolation between application and analytics environments
  • Private internal service communication
  • No direct public access to internal application services or data stores
  • AWS Application Load Balancers
  • Private connectivity between production services

This architecture reduces attack surface while supporting high availability and secure internal communication.

Does ClearSight use a Web Application Firewall (WAF)?

Yes.

ClearSight protects internet-facing services using AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF).

The WAF helps defend against common web-based attacks such as:

  • SQL injection attempts
  • Malicious requests
  • Known malicious IP traffic
  • Other common application-layer attacks

These protections are applied before requests reach backend application services.

Is customer data isolated?

Yes.

Application services and analytics services operate within separate AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and communicate through private networking.

Internal databases and application services are not directly exposed to the public internet, helping reduce security risk while maintaining performance.

How does ClearSight ensure platform availability?

ClearSight is designed for resilience using managed AWS infrastructure.

Key availability features include:

  • Multi-Availability Zone deployments
  • Managed cloud services
  • Load balancing
  • Fault isolation
  • Cloud-native application architecture

This design helps maintain platform availability while minimizing operational risk.

Can ClearSight support enterprise deployments?

Yes.

ClearSight is designed to support enterprise commercial organizations with requirements for:

  • Secure authentication
  • Role-based user access
  • Enterprise integrations
  • API connectivity
  • Scalable cloud infrastructure
  • Commercial analytics
  • Multi-team collaboration

The platform is built to support organizations ranging from emerging MedTech companies to global commercial enterprises.

Who can access our organization’s data?

Access to customer data is restricted to authenticated and authorized users.

Authentication, authorization, and application access controls ensure users can only access the resources and data available within their organization’s deployment.

Enterprise administrators can manage user access based on organizational requirements.

Why does ClearSight emphasize integrations instead of replacing existing systems?

Commercial teams already rely on CRMs, Business Intelligence platforms, and internal reporting tools to run their business.

ClearSight is designed to enhance those systems by providing a trusted commercial intelligence layer—not by asking organizations to replace the tools they’ve already invested in.

Whether intelligence is accessed through the ClearSight platform, embedded within Salesforce or Veeva CRM, surfaced in Tableau or Power BI, or delivered through APIs, the goal is the same: ensure your teams have access to the right commercial intelligence wherever they work.

Vice President, Commercial Strategy

ClearSight is the only platform that connects physician education, career progression, and clinical activity into a single commercial intelligence model. Their depth of data and understanding of the MedTech market is unmatched.

Vice President, Commercial Strategy
Top 20 MedTech Company

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