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Althea US Offers HTM Solutions
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he Althea Group is a privately held organization backed by Permira Funds. Its Centers of Excellence, workshops, and laboratories span the globe, leveraging the expertise of more than 3,000 engineers, technicians, administrators and customer service specialists.
Althea has an established global presence to the market space, managing more than 1.4 million medical devices in over 2,700 health care facilities across 17 countries. This presence allows it to maximize skill sets and supply chains to improve customer outcomes. The U.S. Center of Excellence located just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, specializes in CT, MRI, X-ray, and injectors. The programs consist of replacement parts, new and preowned equipment and contrast injector training and service. All the U.S. team knows how challenging and complex the tasks technicians face can be, that is the reason why the services are designed to support technicians and engineers as well as provide consultancy to anticipate future needs. This, coupled with Althea’s competitive pricing and quality initiative, allows the company to show customers they have selected a great HTM partner. “We supply parts for CT, MRI and X-ray and have recently begun a
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significant reinvestment in each of these modalities. The modality leaders of Althea US have a combined experience level of over 100 years servicing diagnostic imaging equipment,” CEO Dan Siler said. “Our newest modality was launched in 2020 and features a comprehensive program for injectors,” he adds. “This program offers free onsite training, technical support, parts and PM kits for a capitated price. This is our fastest growing program and we have partnerships with some of the largest in-house and ISO organizations in the country.” Althea also offers turnkey solutions for equipment replacements. This includes planning, construction, refurbishment, installation and service. The company has completed 16 projects nationwide over the past 12 months. TechNation found out more about Althea US via a Q&A with Siler. Q: HOW DOES YOUR COMPANY STAND OUT IN THE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT FIELD? Siler: Althea was founded to break those technological barriers. With Althea, customers are free to choose service solutions that work seamlessly, increasing the efficiency of patient care by integrating the management of the technologies that care relies upon. Althea is a global organization which gives us the ability to utilize our global supply chain to bring quality and savings to our customers.
Dan Siler CEO, Althea Q: WHAT IS ON THE HORIZON FOR YOUR COMPANY? DO YOU HAVE ANY GOALS YOU WOULD LIKE TO ACHIEVE IN THE NEAR FUTURE? Siler: Althea continues to innovate everyday by creating programs that support the success of in-house and ISOs. Based on the success of our comprehensive injector program, we have launched a capitated DI parts program. This program improves the technician knowledge base with built-in free training, ensures supply chain efficiency by guaranteeing parts delivery and drives predictability of cost. It does not matter how large or small the install base is, Althea is here to support every customer’s success. For more information, visit althea-group.com.
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