Health systems across the country are unknowingly paying multiple times for the same medical equipment—once to own it, and again to rent it. The issue isn’t always an increase in clinical demand; it’s often availability and visibility to medical device inventory. The cost of these unnecessary rentals can quickly add up, putting more pressure on health systems’ already stretched budgets. Making sure clinicians, finance teams, and clinical engineering teams have real-time visibility into rental and owned equipment inventory, location, and use is the key to breaking the cycle of unnecessary rentals. 

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