GE HealthCare, reLink Partner to Help Reduce Medical Device Waste

GE HealthCare and reLink Medical began a partnership to deliver asset management solutions to help reduce medical device waste, boost operational efficiency, and maximize equipment use.
 
The collaboration features a standardized medical equipment disposition solution involving selling, recycling, or donating equipment that’s no longer needed.
 
“A potential and often overlooked source of expense for providers is medical device waste, which includes aging, or end-of-life, medical devices that sit idle in a healthcare provider’s inventory,” Mohamed El-Demerdash, President, U.S. & Canada Service, GE HealthCare, told the press. “With this collaboration, GE HealthCare will help healthcare providers manage their clinical devices for the full lifecycle of their equipment, a true wing-to-wing solution, from capital planning and purchasing to maintenance and final disposition of the equipment.”
 
When the solution entails selling the equipment, a revenue percentage from that sale is returned to the healthcare provider in credits they can use to buy equipment or parts, invest in training, purchase on-demand services like deinstallations or modernization projects, or redeem revenue via wire transfer or check from reLink Medical.
 
A part of this collaboration, the duo will transport equipment for redeployment between clinical sites and provide long-term storage of equipment for healthcare providers at offsite locations through a smart warehouse solution.
 
This solution will manage logistics to simplify pick up of medical devices from a healthcare provider’s site and catalog every device, so providers have a clear understanding of where their assets are located, helping ensure they have the medical equipment they need without bearing the burden of storing and managing surplus inventory.
 
“This collaboration signifies a significant step forward in revolutionizing asset management solutions and empowering healthcare organizations with the tools and technologies needed to optimize their equipment utilization,” said Jeff Dalton, CEO of reLink Medical. “It leverages reLink Medical’s expertise in equipment disposition, surplus management and inventory optimization to complement GE HealthCare’s comprehensive suite of healthcare solutions.”