
Global Health Intelligence (GHI) is the company behind HospiRank
In 2014 GHI created and launched HospiScope, the world’s largest database of hospital demographics for Latin America. That data is what powers HospiRank 2020, ensuring that it’s direct from the sources (the hospitals themselves) and is constantly updated throughout the year by a team of experienced researchers.
In 2017 GHI published the first edition of HospiRank. The 2017-2019 editions of HospiRank offered a ranking of the top 5 hospitals across 7 categories, along with a limited country reports.
HospiRank 2020 is vastly expanded compared to any previous editions. It was created to offer a unique resource for the sales and marketing teams of medical equipment manufacturers, revealing the hospitals that drive demand in Latin America, purchase habits and broader market patterns to shape strategic planning for 2021 and beyond.
The main features include:

#1 THE TECHTIER ADOPTION MODEL
The results of extensive statistical analysis by GHI, the TechTier Adoption model explains the 6 tiers of hospitals in Latin America and the exact equipment types possessed by each tier. TechTier also highlights the key characteristics of hospitals that possess advanced medical equipment. This model is designed to help marketing and sales teams of medical equipment manufacturers to identify the hospitals that are best-suited for their more sophisticated products.
TechTier is useful not only for identifying prospects, but also for forecasting demand and planning product launches.

#2 THE TOP 50 BEST-EQUIPPED HOSPITALS IN LATIN AMERICA
HospiRank 2020 ranks hospitals according to 8 categories made up of nearly 30 different types of equipment, ranging from angiograms, bone densitometers and C-arms to MRI machines, ultrasound machines and ventilators. This initial list shows the top 5 in each country.
The 8 categories of HospiRank 2020 are:
1. Best Equipped for Hosting Patients
2. Best Infrastructure for High Procedure Count
3. Highest Count of Basic Surgical Equipment
4. Best Equipped for Accommodating Newborns
5. Best Equipped for Primary Diagnostics
6. Best Installed Base for Treating Cancer
7. Best Equipped for Advanced Diagnostic Imaging
8. Best Equipped for High-Risk Patients
Each category lists the hospitals with the most number of equipment present within that category.

#3 THE BEST-EQUIPPED HOSPITALS IN LATIN AMERICA
Organized by country, this section of HospiRank 2020 features the best-equipped hospitals in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico.
This section allows sales and marketing teams to see which specific hospitals possess the largest amounts of different equipment types in 2020, allowing them to determine the needs and future purchase propension of these hospitals while adding new prospects to their pipelines.

#4 EQUIPMENT COUNTS IN 2019-2021 IN 10 KEY MARKETS
For hospitals in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico, this section lists the amounts of 30+ equipment types:
- Anesthesia machines
- Angiograms
- Bone densitometers
- C-arms
- Cobalt therapy machines
- Colposcopes
- Echocardiogram machines
- Electrocardiogram machines
- Electroencephalogram machines
- Endoscopes
- Endoscopic lithotripsy equipment
- Endoscopy towers
- Fluoroscopes
- Gamma cameras and nuclear medicine
- Hemodialysis machines
- Hyperbaric chambers
- Incubators
- Infusion pumps
- Laparoscopic surgery equipment
- Linear accelerators
- Lithotripter machines
- Magnetic resonance imaging machines
- Mastography equipment
- Patient monitoring systems
- PET/CT systems
- PET/MR systems
- Picture archiving communication systems (PACS)
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
- Radiant heat cribs
- Radiology information systems
- Radiotherapy equipment
- Stereotactic mammography machines
- Tomography scanners
- Ultrasound machines
- Vacuum-assisted biopsy equipment
- Ventilators
- X-Ray machines
HospiRank 2020 also offers projections of these equipment types for 2020, 2021 and overall CAGR for 2019-2023. This allows sales and marketing teams to conduct longer-term strategic planning according to product type and identify growth opportunities in the near and long term.

#5 ROBOTIC SURGERY IN LATIN AMERICA
This section of HospiRank 2020 covers the evolution of robotic surgery in Latin America as well as the segmentation between the public and private sectors. It also includes a list of the 100+ hospitals in 12 countries that have robotic surgery systems in operation, denoting the type of institution (public vs. private), equipment make/model and year of acquisition.
This allows companies to assess the use of this technology in Latin America, identify possible sales prospects and develop buyer profiles to target similar hospitals.