TRIMEDX, a provider of clinical engineering, medical device cybersecurity and clinical asset management solutions to health care providers, has acquired Centurion Service Group, a full-service surplus medical equipment management company, to expand its clinical asset management offering. Privacy Policy.Acquisition of full-service surplus medical equipment platform expands TRIMEDX’s comprehensive clinical asset management solution. Under which this service is provided to you. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018Ĭable News Network.
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"But what we've lost in surplus equipment, we've made up in selling manufacturer overstock and equipment from hospital closures." "Hospitals aren't purchasing lots of capital equipment because credit is tight now, so they're hanging on to what they have," says Tivin, Centurion's president. Each month, he buys more than 5,000 pieces of used equipment from hospitals and resells the inventory through live, online auctions to healthcare facilities worldwide. Sales: $6 million in 2007, $10 million in 2008Įrik Tivin describes himself as the Fred Sanford of surplus medical equipment, surrounded by all the cast-offs he can scrounge.
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