AGILE INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
Medical Equipment Management & Logistics
Why Pay for More Equipment When the Same Devices Sit Idle?
Hospitals waste millions of dollars every year buying and renting duplicate equipment. Broken or disconnected logistics processes result in underutilized equipment and strained budgets. They’re also a drain on both patient and clinician satisfaction. Multiplied across an IDN, excess equipment costs quickly erode margins and add to already fierce economic headwinds. Yet, building the infrastructure required for responsive device lifecycle management across multiple locations – including storage, logistics, reprocessing and maintenance – can be cost-prohibitive for IDNs to build in-house. Add a lack of visibility to current equipment inventory and utilization levels, and many health systems are faced with a significant challenge in how to manage their equipment assets moving forward.
Challenges with IDN Equipment
Management and Logistics
A Disconnected System
Healthcare providers waste millions annually due to breakdowns in critical equipment workflows. These gaps drive up total cost of ownership and limit ability to meet patient demand.
Lack of visibility to equipment
location and utilization levels
Unbalanced costs from misalignment
of equipment expenses and demand
Lack of infrastructure to optimize
deployment of owned equipment
Capital shortage requiring greater
need to maximize equipment use life
Facility ownership model prohibits
standardization, sharing and
economies of scale across a system
Fast Access to Patient-Ready Equipment Across Your Entire System
Agiliti can help IDNs reclaim millions in waste by optimizing equipment inventories system-wide. We gain full visibility of equipment spread across your facilities to create highly efficient equipment inventories for your health system. We maintain, reprocess and repair medical equipment — and deliver it precisely where and when it’s needed with our responsive local logistics infrastructure. This empowers your clinicians, elevates the quality of care and saves you millions of dollars in wasted equipment spending. And those initial savings are just the beginning.
Value at Facility Level
Removing cost and complexity from equipment management processes. Better clinical outcomes, higher margins.Value at Facility Level
Removing cost and complexity from equipment management processes. Better clinical outcomes, higher margins.
Value Across Your Entire System
Individual Hospitals
Ensure availability of patient-ready equipment
Increase clinician satisfaction
and productivity
Analytics to drive savings — recover millions in wasted equipment spend
Risk Management
Effective equipment reprocessing – process, tracking, chemistry
Compliance with infection
prevention guidelines
Safeguard patients and
staff while shortening
time-to-therapy
IDNs & Health Systems
Utilize site-level analytics
for equipment planning and cost
reduction measures
Drive standardization and
process efficiency across all sites
Insights into equipment status
(in-use, available, processing) to
maximize availability
Driving Growth through Scalable Solutions
This is where the savings start. Clinicians get faster access to patient-ready equipment. You know exactly how much equipment you have in inventory across your system, so you buy and rent less equipment. You also have the equipment you need in peak periods, such as natural disasters or pandemics. Then, you can quickly scale down inventories and costs in normal operating conditions. Plus, you get all of this equipment agility while lowering your overall maintenance costs. Every engagement is configured to align with your workflows and your operational structures.
Elements of Agile Inventory Management Include:
Equipment Reserve Program
Light-touch management of excess equipment reserves available for rapid, emergent deployment during a pandemic or other disaster. The program includes:
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Inventory management, storage, maintenance and
OEM-approved parts as well as the options of acquiring
de-featured or low-cost equipment models - Deployment processes include preventive maintenance, management of OEM, upgrades or recalls, functional checks, cleaning, transportation prep and onsite set-up
- Ongoing services include device tracking, device recovery and restoration to deployment-ready condition
Multi-Site Flex Pool
Centralized management of patient-ready equipment to meet seasonal demand, improve asset utilization, ensure fast access to patient-ready equipment and conserve capital. The program includes:
- Delivery and tracking of equipment across sites
- Utilization analytics and capital planning support
- Equipment testing, cleaning and reprocessing between uses
- Equipment maintenance and repair services
Multi-Site Flex Pool
Centralized management of patient-ready equipment to meet seasonal demand, improve asset utilization, ensure fast access to patient-ready equipment and conserve capital. The program includes:
- Delivery and tracking of equipment across sites
- Utilization analytics and capital planning support
- Equipment testing, cleaning and reprocessing between uses
- Equipment maintenance and repair services
Onsite Managed Programs
A dedicated onsite team of equipment experts responsible for end-to-end equipment management. The program includes:
- Delivery, tracking, pickup, reprocessing/cleaning, maintenance, recall management and capital planning
- A single point of contact for all equipment-related processes
- Facility-level data and practices to maximize equipment utilization
- Essential insights to equipment status – in-use, patient-ready, in processing or in repair
- Infection control support: documented cleaning and reprocessing between each patient use
Our Infrastructure Deployed
to Your Benefit
An efficient shared infrastructure. Over the past 80 years, Agiliti has built a highly responsive network of equipment specialists, service technicians, specialized vehicles and inventory facilities that can serve the needs of any IDN or hospital. We even connect our customers with equipment reserves that can be accessed during pandemics or other emergencies through the use of our nationwide infrastructure.
150+ National Service Centers
300+ Mobile
Service Labs
1,000+ Specialized Vehicles
500+ Biomedical Repair Technicians
2,200+ Field
Service Technicians
How Will This Impact Care & Costs In
My Health System
Ready to talk with an Agiliti inventory management expert? Every system faces unique challenges. The locations of your facilities, the populations you serve, your mix of critical care and surgical offerings, your workflows, and the composition of your clinical and operational teams all factor into the design of the right equipment management solution. Agiliti experts can draw on our experience from more than 9,000+ healthcare facilities and health systems across the country to show you precisely how our inventory management solutions can impact your clinical and economic outcomes.