Alex Hosted Services is a web-based program that streamlines the management of your instrument and equipment inventory within your healthcare facility. Track instruments from the operating room through sterilization to storage, ensuring that they have been properly cleaned, assembled and maintained. By having the most up-to-date information on your existing inventory and processes, successfully reduce errors and decrease replacement and repair costs and therefore increase your ROI.

• Streamline the management of your instrument inventory to increase productivity and efficiency of your healthcare facility
• Prevent the spread of infection in your healthcare facility with quality assurance measures
• Efficient use of inventory enhances availability of instruments and decreases replacement and repair costs
• Access your hospital data from anywhere via our secure Internet connection
• Reduce implementation cost, time and risk with no IT service overhead, no maintenance and no server or hardware purchase required

Immediate ROI recognized by:

• Increasing productivity of employees so they will be able to perform more duties in a shorter period of time.
• Tracking Instrument and Equipment repairs, which allow you to send inventory out based on USEAGE rather than on a monthly cycle. Save thousands of dollars by not repairing or maintaining instruments and equipment that have not been used.
• Tracking to the penny the amount of dollars in inventory that have been lost between the OR and Decontamination departments. You will know the exact OR location where the inventory was last used.

Provide a user-friendly interface

• Barcode technology allows for quick entry and identification of instruments and instrument sets
• Classify instruments by nickname, type, and specialty
• "Hot spots" for access to visual and related information to specific instrument sets
• Instrument set processing instructions to provide quality assurance
• Vendor information stored electronically and connected to specific instruments in your inventory
• Forced display of processing and quality assurance instructions
• Identification and location of instrument set inventory

Provide automated tool for managing instrument inventory

• Estimate timing of inventory purchases
• Produce detailed reports of instrument order and repair activities
• Make informed purchasing decisions with an automated, up-to-date record of inventory

Count sheet management

• Uniform count sheets allow for quick identification of most current data
• Paperless system allows for easy modification of count sheets
• Effective control of hospital's "corporate data"