Halyard Health, Inc., and Belintra announced a co-marketing arrangement to offer sterilization packaging and logistics solutions. By combining Halyard Health's sterilization wrap products with Belintra's storage and transport logistics flow system for wrapped surgical instrument trays, the two companies will provide solutions for fulfilling surgical instrument sterility and help to improve hospitals' clinical efficiency.
"Halyard Health is continually working to identify opportunities to help our customers address challenges across healthcare delivery, including mitigating risks for healthcare-associated infections and readmissions," said Alex Hodges, General Manager Surgical and Infection Prevention, Halyard Health. "Our co-marketing arrangement with Belintra will provide our customers with customizable solutions for reducing opportunities for surgical instrument contamination, helping to ensure that sterility is maintained post-sterilization through handling and transport to the operating room."
"While demands on central service departments are ever evolving, patient safety remains hospitals' number one priority," said Geert Schepens, CEO, Belintra. "We are pleased to have a promotion arrangement with Halyard Health to harness our collective capabilities to provide access to a solution that allows hospitals to benefit from the flexibility, cost and effectiveness of sterilization wrap with a more efficient means for storage and transportation of wrapped instrument trays post-sterilization."
![“Another key [UDI] benefit, because we're calling that product by the same name across the healthcare supply chain… rich and robust data that we can access around supply consumption and utilization rates. One of the buzz terms we've heard during the COVID-19 crisis was what's my burn rate? How fast am I going through gowns, masks, gloves?” – Mike Schiller, Senior Director at AHRMM](https://img.healthcarepackaging.com/files/base/pmmi/all/image/2020/08/UDI.5f4d326e41d53.png?auto=format&fit=crop&h=146&w=340)
