As hospitals begin to turn to suppliers for a wider array of value-added services, most product companies, and particularly those in low-tech, high-volume commodity lines, find themselves pressured to oblige. For most companies, those services are offered in the name of selling more products. But now one company, orthopedic soft goods supplier DeRoyal Industries Inc. , has recognized the inherent value of its service offering by spinning off a separate company, iPath Inc., to provide OR information systems to hospitals.
DeRoyal has been in the OR information business since 1983, offering traditional OR information systems like scheduling, surgeon preference cards,...
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