Surgical Outcomes & Quality Improvement Center (SOQIC)

What Surgical Outcomes & Quality Improvement Center (SOQIC) does

The Surgical Outcomes & Quality Improvement Center (SOQIC) is an academic research center within Indiana University School of Medicine, established around 2009 and based in Indianapolis. It operates as a collaborative health services, outcomes, health policy, and quality and safety improvement research enterprise comprising more than 45 faculty, fellows, and staff. Research spans all surgical specialties with particular focus on general surgery, surgical oncology, multidisciplinary oncology care, trauma/critical care, and vascular surgery, alongside surgical education research. The center has earned more than $40 million in cumulative funding and trained more than 50 resident researchers over 15 years, publishing in high-impact journals including JAMA and NEJM.

SOQIC's core operational components include its research programs, its two-year funded research fellowships preparing surgical residents for surgeon-scientist careers, and the Center for Outcomes Research in Surgery (CORES), a multi-disciplinary research support team providing study design, methodology, primary and secondary data gathering, and statistical analyses. SOQIC does not build software products or commercial technology platforms; rather, it delivers research outputs, training programs, and analytical services to academic and clinical stakeholders. Its technology footprint consists of research data infrastructure supporting outcomes and quality improvement studies rather than commercial product development.

The center's business model is structured as an academic research enterprise rather than a commercial operation. Revenue derives primarily from federal grants, multiple federally funded institutional training grants, and research contracts. There is no commercial pricing model, no paying customer base, and no disclosed revenue figure. Its go-to-market is community-led: it operates through collaborative research partnerships with surgical departments, healthcare institutions, and academic medical centers, distributing outputs via peer-reviewed publications, professional conferences, and clinical quality improvement channels at local, regional, and national scopes.

Name

Surgical Outcomes & Quality Improvement Center (SOQIC)

Legal name

Surgical Outcomes & Quality Improvement Center (SOQIC)

Website

https://soqic.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

SOQIC is an academic research center at Indiana University School of Medicine that conducts surgical outcomes, health policy, and quality improvement research across surgical specialties while training surgeon-scientists through funded fellowships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Academic Healthcare Research Services

NAICS

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (54), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Operating Room Integration & Surgical Informatics (OR control, documentation, connectivity) (HLAHADAE)

Keywords

• Surgical outcomes research
• Healthcare quality improvement
• Health services research
• Surgical education research
• Comparative effectiveness research

Headquarters

HQ city

Indianapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Research Grants and Funding: SOQIC operates as an academic research enterprise funded primarily through federal grants, institutional training grants, and research contracts. The center has earned more than $40 million in cumulative funding to support outcomes research, quality improvement studies, and surgical education research programs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

SOQIC is an academic research enterprise within the Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Surgery that conducts collaborative health services, surgical outcomes, health policy, and quality and safety improvement research spanning all surgical specialties. It delivers research support services through the Center for Outcomes Research in Surgery (CORES), and provides funded two-year research fellowships that prepare surgical residents for careers as surgeon-scientists.

Product overview

SOQIC is a collaborative health services, outcomes, health policy, and quality and safety improvement research enterprise. It is not a product/software company but rather an academic research center within Indiana University School of Medicine. The organization comprises research programs including the Center for Outcomes Research in Surgery (CORES), research fellowship opportunities, and training programs for medical students, surgical residents, and postdoctoral fellows. Research focus areas include general surgery, surgical oncology, multidisciplinary oncology care, trauma/critical care, and vascular surgery.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Center for Outcomes Research in Surgery (CORES): A multi-disciplinary team of researchers focused on providing research support services to surgical faculty and residents, offering expertise in research design, study methodology, primary and secondary data gathering, and statistical analyses.

Products and services

• Center Programs Research programs focused on surgical outcomes and quality improvement, with focus areas in comparative effectiveness, implementation and dissemination science, and health policy, serving academic medical centers and healthcare systems.
• Funded Two-Year Research Fellowships Funded two-year research fellowships for surgical residents, providing training in surgical outcomes, health services, quality improvement, implementation science, health policy, and surgical education research to prepare residents for surgeon-scientist careers.
• Center for Outcomes Research in Surgery (CORES) A multi-disciplinary research support service offering expertise in research design, study methodology, primary and secondary data gathering, and statistical analyses to surgical faculty and residents.

Quantifiable outcome

• More than $40 million in cumulative funding earned
• +2 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• AcademyHealth: Professional society and convening organization for health services and outcomes researchers. Not a direct research competitor, but a thematic peer that shapes funding priorities, methodology, and dissemination for the same research community SOQIC operates in.

Emerging players

• Health Catalyst: Data and analytics company focused on healthcare quality and outcomes measurement — adjacent commercial counterpart to the outcomes research and analytics work SOQIC conducts via CORES, but operating as a scaled technology business rather than an academic center.

Broad incumbents

• Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI): Long-standing, broad-incumbent organization focused on healthcare quality improvement and patient safety. Comparable mission overlap with SOQIC's quality and safety improvement research, though IHI operates nationally and at portfolio scale rather than within a single surgical department.
• RAND Health: Large, established health services research organization conducting outcomes, quality, and policy research across multiple specialties and care settings. Operates at much greater scale and broader scope than SOQIC but addresses overlapping research questions for academic and policy audiences.
• Premier Inc. Large healthcare improvement company with a nationwide performance and quality measurement infrastructure serving hospitals and surgical providers. Overlaps with SOQIC's quality-improvement research and benchmarking interests at a commercial, multi-institutional scale.

Direct peers

• Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice: Academic institute centered on health services research, outcomes measurement, and clinical practice improvement — closely aligned with SOQIC's quality, comparative-effectiveness, and health-policy research agenda.
• Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Surgery and Public Health: Harvard-affiliated academic research center dedicated to surgical outcomes, health services, and policy research with a strong training mission for surgeon-scientists. Mirrors SOQIC's blend of outcomes research, comparative effectiveness, and fellowship-based training.
• UCSF Surgical Outcomes Research Program: Academic research program at a peer U.S. medical school focused on surgical outcomes and health services research. Operates with similar faculty/trainee composition and federal-grant funding model, serving overlapping academic surgical quality-improvement needs.
• University of Michigan Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy (CHOP): Academic health services and surgical outcomes research center embedded in a peer U.S. medical school. Directly comparable in mission: measure and improve the outcomes and quality of surgical and procedural care through large-database research and policy analysis.
• Northwestern Surgical Outcomes Research Center: Academic surgical outcomes research group at a peer U.S. medical school with similar federal-grant funding, fellow training, and quality-improvement focus across surgical specialties.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/IU_SOQIC
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/indiana-university-school-of-medicine-department-of-surgery

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