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NovaMed applies its extensive expertise and experience with medical technology
management to help clients make optimal medical equipment purchase decisions
regarding reconditioned medical equipment and refurbished medical equipment. When a client is deciding whether to purchase an additional piece of medical equipment or replace an existing device or medical system, NovaMed can provide purchase recommendations based on its medical technology management experience with maintaining new and refurbished medical equipment of all kinds: life-support, therapeutic, monitoring and diagnostic. A technical evaluation of refurbished medical equipment under consideration will include information and recommendations relating to equipment reliability, serviceability, and possible clinical problems that may be encountered with refurbished medical equipment. NovaMed personnel know the "ins and outs" of the products of the medical equipment manufacturers, medical equipment suppliers, and other medical equipment companies throughout the industry, because they have worked with them in the course of providing health-care technology management services since 1983. NovaMed has the experience and know-how to assist you with your reconditioned medical equipment purchases.
Imaging medical equipment manufacturer expertise
NovaMed expertise extends to all types of refurbished medical equipment companies, including major brand-name ventilators, including anesthesia ventilators, surgical equipment lasers, telemetry systems, patient monitoring equipment, video systems and communication systems. For example, NovaMed is one of the largest independent multi-vendor imaging equipment service providers in the United States, with credentialed service engineers from the major imaging medical equipment manufacturers, such as General Electric, Siemens, Picker, and Hewlett Packard. NovaMed's Diagnostic Imaging Services group expertise covers all imaging modalities including general radiography and fluoroscopy (R&F), mammography, computed tomography, angiography and diagnostic ultrasonography, as well as complete equipment relocation, deinstallation and installation services. NovaMed serves regionally as the preferred multi-vendor service entity for three national imaging medical equipment manufacturers and two national healthcare outsourcing firms. NovaMed can help you with any reconditioned medical equipment questions you may have.
NovaMed helps clients with new, reconditioned and refurbished medical equipment purchase decisions
NovaMed is a dealer for several diagnostic imaging medical equipment manufacturers. These include Instrumentarium, Quantum, CaresBuilt, Gendex, and others. NovaMed also has relationships with several imaging medical equipment companies that produce new or refurbished medical equipment. This allows NovaMed to offer both new and refurbished medical equipment to its clients in response to their medical equipment acquisition needs.
Just a few of the other new and refurbished medical equipment sales categories and medical equipment companies in NovaMed's expertise include:
| Acuson, ATL, HP Picker |
Computed tomography |
| Ultrasound |
Fischer Shimadzu |
| CGR Philips |
Mammography/biopsy computed tomography |
| Mammography |
General Electric Toshiba |
| Continental Siemens |
Ultrasound |
| Angiography |
Special procedures |
NovaMed information sources for evaluating medical equipment companies
NovaMed helps clients evaluate their new or refurbished medical equipment purchase decisions by applying its deep knowledge of new and refurbished medical equipment and supply companies and its lengthy experience providing medical equipment management services in multivendor, multisystem healthcare environments and facilities. NovaMed employs a comprehensive equipment service management program based on the general philosophy that the most cost-effective and quality-oriented service strategy involves a mix of medical equipment companies, qualified independent service organizations (ISO), NovaMed's on-site and field-dispatched Technology Managers, and the facility's own technical staff. As a result, NovaMed has gained expertise with a broad range of both new and refurbished medical equipment and supply companies and can offer sound advice when assisting with your reconditioned medical equipment purchases.
NovaMed can offer recommendations for the purchase of new or used, refurbished medical equipment based on insights from its JCAHO-recognized Risk-based Equipment Inspection and Maintenance Program. Based on current JCAHO standards for medical equipment management, the performance risk profile of medical equipment companies devices are evaluated based on the following criteria:
- Equipment Repair
- Performance Assurance Inspections
- Preventive Maintenance
- Computerized Documentation and Equipment Control System
- Electrical Safety Inspections
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- Incident Investigation
- Pre-purchase Evaluation Consultation
- Acceptance Testing of Equipment
- Quality Assurance Reporting
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This risk-based equipment classification system is an effective management tool designed to ensure patient safety and reduce equipment liability when buying new or reconditioned medical equipment.
NovaMed has developed an extensive database over the past 15 years which provides performance profiles of a spectrum of new or refurbished medical equipment offered by many different manufacturers, new and reconditioned medical equipment suppliers, and other medical equipment companies. Moreover, NovaMed gains additional valuable data from equipment management reports produced by its Clinical Engineering Services group. These reports include information on all published Alerts and Recalls issued by the government or medical equipment companies, depreciation and useful-life standards and Quality Improvement plans related to new or refurbished medical equipment use and maintenance.
New and refurbished medical equipment sales services
NovaMed employs dedicated medical equipment sales specialists with decades of experience in both new and refurbished medical equipment sales. The company has made a significant investment in the recruitment of seasoned, professional sales executives who bring many years of proven healthcare medical equipment sales and maintenance program sales experience to the organization. Combined with the experience of NovaMed medical equipment technicians and technology managers, they can help clients with every aspect of their purchase decisions for new or reconditioned medical equipment. For more information, contact NovaMed to find out how we can help with your refurbished medical equipment needs.
NovaMed leverages the expertise of its technology managers and medical equipment technicians regarding medical equipment companies gained in new and refurbished medical equipment repair and maintenance to help clients with their purchase decisions on new and reconditioned medical equipment. With over 300 clients throughout the continental United States, NovaMed medical equipment technicians and staff consistently achieve an overall customer satisfaction rating of "above average to excellent" 95 percent of the time for healthcare technology management services. Contact NovaMed to see why so many health-care facilities choose NovaMed over and over again when deciding about new or refurbished medical equipment purchases, repair and maintenance, JCAHO compliance consulting, facility-wide multi-vendor service and biomedical equipment management, and a range of medical equipment new or refurbished medical equipment sales and installation services.
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