Innovation Improves Surgical Decisions with Medical Devices and Delivers Lifetime Support for Implant Patients
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August 26, 2020
Innovation improves surgical decisions with medical devices and delivers lifetime support for implant patients
First certified closed-loop automated solution for tracking medical implants launches on the market, thanks to new partnership from Xcelrate UDI and TrackMy Solutions
SEATTLE, USA - Your favorite aunt requires a much-needed hip replacement and is scheduled for surgery. How does she know the hip implant selected by the surgeon is safe to implant? Further, what if there is a recall after the hip is implanted? How would she even find out about it, to get help -- before her health is compromised?
Xcelrate UDI and TrackMy Solutions have teamed up to introduce the healthcare industry’s first and only Closed-Loop Automated Solution to improve patient safety with medical devices, implants and tissues.
“It’s amazing to think that we’re the first to create this kind of closed-loop solution, which is so urgently needed,” says Xcelrate UDI President Joan Melendez. “About 83,000 patients have died in the last 10 years because of medical device quality issues. Almost 600 million medical devices were recalled between 2018 and 2019, and half of those were in the USA.
“Millions of us rely on medical devices such as pacemakers, implants and other miracles of modern medicine,” she explained. “But how would you know if there has been a recall because it is poor quality, counterfeit, or expired? Our Closed-Loop Automated Solution (CLAS) addresses these healthcare gaps by automating operational processes for medical devices, improving implant safety at the point of care, and providing patients with actionable medical device information for the lifetime of their implants.”
From the health facility supply closet to your surgery and afterwards, the medical device is tracked all the way, so health administrators, doctors and nurses and most importantly, the patients have all the information they need to make informed decisions.”
Xcelrate UDI is a CEHRT certified barcode scanning application that is used by hospitals to read all barcode types at the point of care. It significantly reduces the risk of implanting unsafe devices, improves Interoperability compliance, and eliminates manual processes related to medical device, implant and tissue management.
For vendors & manufacturers, Xcelrate UDI provides one of the industry’s most complete clearinghouse for recalls and adverse events and the industry’s only data source for real-time prevention effectiveness at the point of care.
TrackMy Implants is an Electronic Device ID Card delivered to patients that captures the medical device data for the patient’s implants, provides real-time recall and adverse event notices for lifetime of their implants, and enables self-reporting of any implant quality issues.
For more information or to schedule a free demo, contact info@xcelrateudi.com.
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ABOUT XCELRATE UDI
Xcelrate UDI is a healthcare technology and consulting services company that leverages the power of UDI (unique device identifier) barcode scanning technology to bridge the information gaps between data sources (provided by manufacturers and the FDA) for medical devices and physical supplies. We focus on device traceability and improving patient safety. Our vision is to be the industry’s most trust partner in advancing UDI adoption to improve compliance with medical devices and reduce patient risk at the point of care.
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