Champion Medical Awarded Premier, Inc., Agreement, Easing Access to RFID Tracking of Implantable Tissue and Medical Devices

Members of 3,600-hospital alliance can take advantage of negotiated rates for UDITracker® system to improve regulatory compliance and patient safety while lowering costs
By: Champion Medical Technologies
LAKE ZURICH, Ill. - March 8, 2016 - PRLog -- Champion Medical Technologies today announced it has entered into a group purchasing agreement with Premier, Inc. to provide its members with negotiated terms for its RFID storage technologies, which, integrated with its industry-leading medical device management system, UDITracker®, deliver fully automated tracking of chain of custody, expiration dating and recall matching for valuable implants and medical devices.

Champion’s RFID solution simplifies the critical tasks of regulatory compliance, recall investigation and managing expiring inventory by tracking and managing all implants – including tissue, orthopedic and cardiovascular devices – in the OR and cardiac interventional suites, in inventory and in electronic health records. This highly cost-effective solution significantly enhances healthcare providers’ operational efficiency and efficacy.

Premier is a leading healthcare improvement company, with approximately 3,600 U.S. hospitals and 120,000 other providers. It works with its members to enable better care and outcomes at a lower cost.

“We are proud to ally with Premier, which is at the forefront of helping healthcare organizations use technology to optimize quality, safety and efficiency,” said Champion CEO Peter Casady. “Hospitals nationwide lose up to $5 billion every year because of the limitations of their manual record-keeping systems. UDITracker, with integrated RFID storage, helps them gain more control and better insight into their medical device use, which is key in an era when value-based purchasing reimbursement models are driving a focus on quality, outcomes and costs.”

Having up to date, reliable and accessible information reduces the possibility of patients receiving expired or recalled implants, generates usage data and reduces the amount of time spent on recall investigations from weeks to hours.

Champion has made significant investments in product development to provide hospitals with the tools to track unique device identifiers (UDIs), mandated for device makers by the Food and Drug Administration. Many hospitals and health systems have failed to take advantage of the opportunity to use UDI coding to accurately track and trace medical device implants through the entire chain of hospital custody. Champion’s thorough understanding of UDIs has informed its capability to automate many of the tedious tasks required for compliance.

For more information visit, www.championmt.com, call 866-803-3720 or email sales@championmt.com.

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Champion Medical Technologies
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