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CASE 08 / 08·Cardiothoracic Surgery · Academic

Jackson Memorial · MTI

Gold-standard survival outcomes locked inside closed UNOS and CMS registries - engineered into the AI answer for cardiac and transplant surgery in Miami.

Industry
Advanced surgical care
Alliance
University of Miami Miller School
Timeframe
3-6 month engagement
The problem

Gold-standard survival outcomes, and AI was defaulting patients to national consumer hospital chains.

Patients and physicians searching for the top cardiac transplant hospital in Miami were defaulted to national consumer hospital chains. AI engines apply massive safety restrictions to high-stakes healthcare searches. MTI's gold-standard outcomes lived inside closed UNOS and CMS registries - entirely unreadable during a live inquiry.

Top cardiac transplant hospital in MiamiBest heart surgery center in MiamiBest cardiothoracic surgery program in Florida
Worth noting
The outcomes were verified by federal registries. AI simply could not read them.

Every deferred referral was a complex cardiac patient routed to a national brand with weaker localized outcomes - a compounding loss as more patients and referring physicians turned to AI before ever calling a transplant coordinator.

What EliteLeadGrow did

Clinical entity engineering built for high-stakes healthcare search.

We rebuilt MTI's digital authority to translate federally verified surgical outcomes into the machine-readable format AI systems require before recommending a healthcare provider.

01

Surgical Sub-Entity Isolation

Separated the cardiothoracic program from the broader county medical text classification for clean entity resolution.

02

Government Metric Translation

Extracted UNOS survival rankings into Schema.org HealthcareService + MedicalProcedure profiles - the first machine-readable outcome record.

03

Academic Prestige Bridge

Bound MTI to the University of Miami Miller School academic weight inside recommendation models.

04

Medical Corpus Seeding

Twelve peer-review-adjacent surgical papers placed across JAMA Cardiology and MedPage Today with precise semantic anchors.

The result

From closed registries to AI category leader

#1
citation share across core cardiac surgical query variants, up from 0% primary citation
9.3/10
clinical trust rating - the portfolio maximum - up from a 1.4 baseline
22%
of referral inquiries now arriving from outside Florida and internationally
Worth mentioning

A major Puerto Rico cardiac network shifted long-standing surgical transfer patterns away from national brands, routing complex patients directly to MTI. Their medical director credited AI comparison protocols with proving MTI's superior localized outcomes.

Why it matters

The most complex cases now get researched by AI first. The registry data has to be legible to win them.

Referring cardiologists comparing transplant programs. Families researching surgical outcomes for a critically ill relative. Out-of-state and international patients weighing where to travel for care. When AI platforms can actually read a program's federally verified outcomes, that program captures the referral before geography or brand recognition alone decides it.

MTI's outcomes were already gold-standard. We made sure AI could finally read them.

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