Innovative Health, a national leader in medical device reprocessing for the cardiology sector, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to reprocess the ViewFlex Xtra Diagnostic Ultrasound Catheter. Ultimately, this clearance will allow the company to develop a full product suite for clinicians based on this new category of devices, including other widely used mapping and imaging catheters.
 
Innovative Health launched this product innovation based on direct feedback from its customers, including clinicians in the electrophysiology (EP) field, and worked to seek this clearance despite the device’s complex technology. This demonstrates the organization’s continued commitment to aligning itself with the rapid clinical and technological evolution in this space.
 
Innovative Health continues to make extensive investments in research and development, enabling the company to pursue clearances for devices based on the very latest, difficult-to-reprocess technologies. In the last two years, the company has received three times more electrophysiology (EP) FDA clearances than all of its competitors combined. Reprocessors must actively pursue FDA clearances in order to introduce new products; this usually requires documentation that thesem products can achieve levels of quality and safety comparable to those of the original device. This research can also help companies like Innovative Health identify entirely new reprocessing approaches, as it has with the ViewFlex catheter, allowing them to more easily pursue clearances for other new products based on similar technologies.
 
The ViewFlex catheter is used frequently in EP labs today to help visualize cardiac anatomy and physiology. With this recent FDA clearance, it will be added to Innovative Health’s portfolio of reprocessed devices include diagnostic, ultrasound and mapping catheters, as well as other EP-specific devices. Innovative Health partners with hospitals to collect the devices, then applies a rigorous, proprietary process to clean, test and sterilize them for re-use. As a result, the company can help hospitals save hundreds of thousands of dollars on medical device spending per year, all while maintaining patient safety.
 
“No one has successfully reprocessed a device this complex in our space before,” said Rick Ferreira, CEO of Innovative Health. “Our engineers are some of the most dedicated, talented individuals in this business, and they have truly opened up a new frontier in medical device reprocessing with this latest product.”
 
Innovative Health is an advanced medical device reprocessing company that offers smarter utilization of medical devices in hospitals’ cardiology and electrophysiology programs.