OREANDA-NEWS. October 16, 2012. Toronto’s Humber River Regional Hospital (HRRH) and GE Healthcare are pleased to announce an innovative fifteen-year agreement that will implement the first Managed Equipment Services (MES) solution in North America. An MES agreement is a flexible and tailored technology and service agreement to provide long term, sustainable access to innovative medical equipment and services.

This first in North America agreement will provide HRRH a strategic approach to the ongoing acquisition, replacement and maintenance of hospital technology across a wide array of programs: surgery; cardiac care; diagnostic imaging and more. This new model will help the hospital to further enhance the high quality of care it currently provides. Humber’s patients will benefit from access to the latest in medical equipment to improve both quality and safety of care.

Under this new agreement, GE Healthcare will manage the ongoing acquisition, installation and replacement of medical technology for HRRH and provide technology maintenance services for the life of the agreement in Humber River’s Diagnostic Imaging, Surgical and Emergency Room Departments. This means that care providers can focus on patients, leaving the upkeep of equipment to GE Healthcare. This is a model that has proved to be successful in a number of countries including the U.K, Germany, Spain and Australia.

The MES agreement covers approximately 1,320 pieces of equipment. HRRH expects that this new approach to the acquisition of critical equipment will save the hospital approximately USD 20 - 25M (CAD) over the fifteen year term.