Helia Connect vs Surgery Exchange
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Helia Connect
This cloud-based digital ecosystem enables healthcare facilities and suppliers to conduct business more efficiently. It streamlines workflows for supplier representatives, balancing clinical care with financial performance.
- Cloud-based digital ecosystem
- HIPAA-compliant
- Streamlined supplier workflows
- Automated task management
- Facilitates business efficiency
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Helia Connect® is the agnostic, cloud-based, confidential, HIPAA-compliant digital ecosystem that provides healthcare facilities and suppliers with the ability to conduct business more efficiently and faster than ever before. The ecosystem is an environment where facilities and suppliers can adopt world-class practices and solutions more quickly and effectively, while balancing the demands of clinical care and financial performance. Helia Connect® gives you everything you need to act as a rep for a supplier or distributor in one place and provides an automated, streamlined workflow for all the tasks you already do. Please contact us at info@heliacare.com with any questions, information requests, or if you find a bug to report.
Surgery Exchange
This HIPAA-compliant software streamlines the "Bill Only" implant surgery workflow for providers. It manages scheduling, case planning, usage capture, and purchase order issuance, ensuring contract compliance and improving revenue cycle management.
- HIPAA/PHI compliant
- Manages "Bill Only" implant workflow
- Supports case planning
- Captures usage data
- Automates purchase orders
- Ensures contract compliance
- Improves revenue cycle management
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SURGERY EXCHANGE SOLUTIONS Surgery Exchange Solutions are HIPAA/PHI compliant software specifically designed to support the provider in managing the complicated implant “Bill Only” surgery workflow starting when surgery is scheduled, then moving to case planning activities, capturing usage, and issuing vendor’s purchase order. BENEFITS • Deliver 100% contract compliance in real time • Capture 100% of all charted bill only items • Improve revenue cycle management • Reduce handling costs through automation
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Surgery Exchange at 100% against Helia Connect's 57%. Surgery Exchange also leads on rating (3.7 vs 3.3). Helia Connect's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (33 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Surgery Exchange holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Helia Connect has 33 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Helia Connect's written reviews are positive against 100% of Surgery Exchange's.
Helia Connect ships an update every 2 weeks, Surgery Exchange every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Helia Connect | Surgery Exchange |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (33 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Helia Care | MedTech Exchange, Inc. |
Customer experience
Helia Connect
Surgery Exchange
In-app purchases
Helia Connect
No in-app purchases
Surgery Exchange
No in-app purchases
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