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ECRI Institute Health Devices Gold On-line Service

Health Devices Gold On-line Service

Click here for the Health Device Gold Brochure in pdf format

Health Devices Gold is the ' What', ' Which' and ' Where' of Medical Technology Management and Procurement.

This unique on-line service offers the combination of THREE services:

  • Health Devices System
  • Healthcare Product Comparison System (HPCS)
  • Sourcebase of International Suppliers.

The Health Devices System

The Health devices Web site offers access to valuable research tools, reports from the Heath Devices Journal, access to the Alerts database, useful hotlinks and the Heath Devices question and answers forum.

Publications include the Health Devices Journal, Health Devices Alerts, Action Items, Abstracts and regulatory data from agencies around the world. The Health Devices Alerts database is the world's largest register of international medical device problems, hazards and recalls.

Healthcare Product Comparison System (HPCS)

HPCS offers unique model specific comparisons across a wide range of thousands of medical devices, covering hospital, laboratory, imaging and radiology.

Each report contains useful details about cost containment, life cycle costings, prices/purchase considerations, standards and guidelines, supplier information, reported problems and much more. The on-line service has 'hot links' through to thousands of supplier's web sites, in addition you can also build your own model specific comparisons. HPCS on-line is updated on a continuous basis, the CD is updated every three months.

New to HPCS is the 'ECRI Institute Recommended Specifications'. These are designed to be used as generic specifications for tender documents and are found at the front of the comparison charts. They can be extracted and inserted into any hospital document for procurement purposes.

International Sourcebase

Sourcebase is an international database of Medical Technology Suppliers. It contains over 31,000 executive contact names and 32,000 Trade Names with direct links to over 10,000 company Web sites and has listings for nearly 6,000 product categories.

Search criteria allows searches by device, manufacturer, speciality, world region, trade name, technology, company name, company association and giving direct access to individual web sites. Find competing manufacturers and products or alternate suppliers, companies and products are cross linked.