Mobile App Assists Implant Surgery Scheduling and Inventory Management

A new mobile application (app) makes the daily routine of medical device representatives more streamlined by automating supply line and schedule ordering procedures.

The "Remote Control” mobile application works across all major mobile platforms and syncs up with the implant distributor's operations team, allowing sales representatives to use quickly and conveniently quick codes to save and schedule implant cases with prepopulated inventory lists for common procedures; view inventory request status and check individual and team case schedules; and access and be immediately alerted to physician-driven procedures.

Using the mobile app, medical device suppliers experience fewer errors due to improved workflows, along with enhanced case scheduling, inventory control, customer support, and analytics. The reduced reliance on phone calls, faxes, and manual ordering processes result in fewer mistakes, better planning, and improved patient safety. However, for complicated procedures, medical device representatives can choose instead to work from their computers to manage and order inventory, instead of on their mobile. The "Remote Control” mobile application is a product of InVivoLink (Nashville, TN, USA).

"At InVivoLink, we believe Web-based, collaborative and mobile technologies are disruptive forces in the medical device community, and that they can reduce waste and improve patient care,” said Ryan Wells, CEO of InVivoLink. "Our mobile app is a prime example of how we are improving the way stakeholders communicate; being Web-based allows hospitals, physicians, sales reps and distributor operations to all share the same information in real time. That's how relationships should work.”

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