TEL AVIV, Israel & BOSTON--(
BUSINESS WIRE)--Haldor Advanced
Technologies announced today the commercial launch in North
America of its ORLocate™ surgical instrument tracking and asset
management system. ORLocate™ is the first commercially available system that
uses radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to methodically track,
manage and analyze usage patterns of surgical instruments, before, during and
post-surgical procedure. The system provides hospitals and sterilization
centers a return on investment, promotes lean management and enhances patient
safety.
Next week Haldor will be one in a select group of companies
exhibiting at a very prestigious event in Israel
to be attended by more than 50 CEOs from hospitals throughout the U.S. and Canada. The event will be hosted by
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel and the Israel Export &
International Cooperation Institute.
“We are honored to have an opportunity to demonstrate how
ORLocate™ can assist hospitals in fulfilling their vision of cost reduction and
lean management through the effective management of surgical instruments, one
of the most high-cost and non-transparent assets at a hospital,” said Mr. Rubi
Halberthal, president and CEO of Haldor Advanced Technologies.
Haldor's ORLocate™ system is highly modular, reliable,
scalable and accurate. One of its distinctive traits is the capability to
simultaneously read multiple surgical instruments in a split second. It blends
seamlessly with the workflow within and between the sterile processing
departments and the operating rooms, thus closing the gaps in the lifecycle of
surgical instruments. It also provides the capabilities to interact with the
hospital’s real-time location system as well as the hospital’s information
systems and technologies.
Mr. Halberthal continued, “At the moment, large US academic
medical centers manually track more than 35,000 instruments each day (or more
than 11 million per year). By using the ORLocate™ system the hospital can
identify when something is missing, what is missing and where it is. This helps
hospitals to reduce the loss of surgical instruments, the amount of time
required to pack surgical sets, and the training time for newly hired sterile
processing technicians. In addition, it increases the accuracy of packed sets
to 100% and helps to reduce surgical instrument inventory levels. All of these
deliverables help hospitals to save money and save lives.”
About Haldor Advanced Technologies
Haldor Advanced Technologies fulfills the vision of cost reduction and lean
management within modern hospitals and sterilization centers by enabling
effective surgical instrument tracking and effective asset management. Haldor
is a privately held company with global headquarters in Israel and US
headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
For more information, please visit www.haldor-tech.com.
Posted by Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief, MDT