Driscoll Children’s Hospital Selects Genesis Automation to Provide Automated Supply Chain Traceability Platform

July 24, 2018

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Genesis Automation, a leading provider of healthcare traceability solutions, today announced that Driscoll Children’s Hospital has selected the Genesis platform. Genesis Automation’s healthcare traceability platform helps hospitals improve patient safety, cut costs, and eliminate waste.

Under the agreement, Genesis Automation will provide Driscoll Children’s Hospital with integrated supply chain management technology to increase traceability of medical supplies, with a special focus on tracking and tracing bone and tissue implants. Utilization will result in significant cost reductions, effective device expiry and recall management and increased visibility into procedure costs.

Driscoll Children’s Hospital is a 189-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric specialists and subspecialists representing more than 30 medical and surgical specialties offering care throughout South Texas, including Corpus Christi, the Rio Grande Valley, Victoria, and Laredo. Driscoll Children’s Hospital opened in 1953 and is the only freestanding children’s hospital in South Texas. As the 7th largest employer in Corpus Christi in 2016, Driscoll had almost 171,000 patient visits, including nearly 38,000 patients seen at South Texas’ first emergency room created specifically for pediatrics.

“Driscoll currently has supply information in multiple disparate systems. We have had the objective to implement a single application providing full visibility into supplies across the enterprise,” stated Sandro Rossetti, Director of Supply Chain. “Genesis was selected because it was a unique and innovative technology that makes it the ideal platform to support that vision and take the hospital to the next level of supply chain efficiency.”

“We are happy to have Driscoll Children’s as our newest customer,” stated Guillermo Ramas, Chief Executive Officer of Genesis Automation USA. “Genesis strongly supports Driscoll’s mission to provide quality care to the children of South Texas and adoption of our solution will help them to drive better outcomes and save money that can be used for other aspects of caring for their patients.”

About Genesis AutomationGenesis Automation is a leading provider of innovative supplies management, traceability and analytics solutions featuring clinically-integrated technology that redefines what supply chain means for value-based healthcare. Genesis provides hospitals and healthcare providers with affordable, innovative solutions that improve patient safety, cut costs and eliminate waste.