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ATLANTA – St. Joseph’s Hospital has finished deploying a new asset tracking solution to manage its high-value specialty equipment.
By leveraging Littleton, Mass.-based WaveMark’s CIMS hospital inventory management solution, officials at the Atlanta hospital expect to be able to track expensive specialty equipment and physician preference solutions in the cardiac cath and electrophysiology labs.
“I am able to pull a report of products expiring on any given day, in a matter of minutes, and quickly circulate to the labs for all expired products to be removed expeditiously,” said Chuck Naylor, inventory and finance manager of cardiology at St. Joseph’s. “Normally this would involve a product by product review of every stent and balloon on the shelf. It will also reduce our chance of missing expired product to practically zero, obviously an important factor in maintaining the highest level of patient safety.”
Founded in 1880, St. Joseph's is a 410-bed facility and a member of Catholic Health East. The hospital offers cardiac, neurologic, vascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory, orthopaedic and cancer specialty care and has more than 3,500 solutions in the cardiac wing alone. Hospital officials gave an estimated value of all the products at $2 million.
As one of Atlanta’s oldest practicing facilities, St. Joseph’s has been recognized as one of the top specialty-referral hospitals in the state, officials said.
