Hospital Alliance Selects AeroScout As Exclusive Vendor For RFID Asset Tracking, Management Solutions

  • Sep 11, 2009

Premier Purchasing Partners L.P., the group purchasing unit of the Premier healthcare alliance has selected AeroScout’s healthcare visibility solutions as the exclusive Wi-Fi-based RFID solutions for Premier’s member hospitals.

Premier, a quality and cost improvement alliance of more than 2,200 U.S. hospitals and 63,000 other healthcare sites, awarded a three-year contract to AeroScout as a preferred provider for RFID Asset Tracking and Management Solutions. AeroScout solutions provide visibility into the location, status and condition of assets, patients and staff throughout all hospital departments. AeroScout is already the chosen solution for hundreds of hospitals and is exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association.

“Premier is proud to offer RFID solutions that drive key benefits for hospital organizations, such as ensuring regulatory compliance, improving patient safety, reducing capital and operational expenditures, increasing staff efficiency and enhancing patient care,” said Mike Alkire, president of Premier Purchasing Partners.

“AeroScout offers a broad range of solutions that will enable Premier member hospitals to leverage their existing investments in standard Wi-Fi networks by offering them a true hospital-wide visibility solution that is cost effective and easy to deploy,” said Gabi Daniely, vice president of marketing and product strategy at AeroScout.

AeroScout addresses the entire set of visibility application requirements of hospital organizations in the most comprehensive and cost efficient manner. With AeroScout’s robust and scalable Unified Asset Visibility solution, hospital organizations can work with a single, proven provider and implement one platform for all current and future asset, patient and staff visibility needs, including.

“We’re honored to be selected by Premier to serve the needs of its hospital members,” Daniely said. “Our partnership with Premier promotes the benefits of our offering and demonstrates why AeroScout leads the market. Our solutions enable healthcare organizations to reduce capital and operational expenses while continuing to improve quality of care.”

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