CHG-MERIDIAN
Flexible Financing for Efficient Healthcare Technology Management

The healthcare sector is a complex environment where social, political, and economic factors have an undue impact. But healthcare organizations must continue to serve their patients in sophisticated and equitable ways—no matter what complications or widespread disruptions arise.

Typically, a hospital’s route to the healthcare technology market was either a capital purchase or leasing. However, these two options only provide hospitals with access to financing options. What hospitals really require is access to a complete equipment management solution that CHG-MERIDIAN provides.

Central to that managed equipment service is tesma, CHG-MERIDIAN’s cloud-based asset management tool. With tesma, customers can intelligently combine and analyze asset data from various systems, which is an excellent help with decision-making. CHG-MERIDIAN stands apart from its rivals by providing clients with a digital platform for completely controlling their IT assets. It helps businesses navigate budget constraints and other difficulties through its lease models, assisting them in obtaining technology, efficiently managing a portfolio of IT equipment, and supporting all potential business initiatives.

“Our lifecycle management methodology can provide savings of over 20 percent while assisting organizations in procuring best-suited equipment,” says Simon Harrsen, VP of sales, USA.

At the same time, CHG-MERIDIAN places significant emphasis on sustainability, ensuring that of the equipment returned to it, 96% is refurbished and remarketed to extend the useful life of the asset. Further assisting its clients, CHG-MERIDIAN provides a first-of-its-kind carbon-neutral leasing solution, carbonZER0, which bundles a carbon offset within the rental payment. This enables clients to make great strides toward their sustainability goals and acquire carbon-neutrality certifications.

CHG-MERIDIAN was founded over 40 years ago, and today operates worldwide in 30 countries and employs 1,200 people.

Most of its healthcare team has over 30 years of industry healthcare technology experience. They possess deep knowledge of equipment lifecycles, value, market trends, and the most suitable equipment for leasing. Correspondingly, it has six sigma black belts that aid in developing process maps and a dedicated team of support workers that ensures that all customer needs are met and high-quality services are delivered.

“Being aware of the latest technology in the industry and advising consumers on which technology may soon become outdated provides them a competitive advantage. When assigning a residual value, having a global view of what the equipment will be worth at the end of the term allows us to build a more aggressive pricing model,” says Harrsen.

Our lifecycle management methodology can provide savings of over 20 percent while assisting organizations in procuring best-suited equipment

Recently, CHG-MERIDIAN helped a healthcare system resolve their financial problems through timely and strategic technology deployments. For this project, they took a complete audit of their existing resources, technology requirements, and deployment strategy. CHG-MERIDIAN also became engaged in the operational side of things, looking at the actual rollout of the equipment and future technology plans to better match the appropriate financing to the lifecycle of each equipment type. It went beyond this and ensured the client could consistently implement best-suited technologies without worrying about their limited resources.

CHG-MERIDIAN continues to foster better relationships between organizations and their vendors by operating around the tenet that business is not just between two companies, but two different people. It continues to be a true partner in helping healthcare systems transition to the latest clinical and diagnostic devices and enhance their care delivery and clinical outcomes.