GE Healthcare Selects Axway's Synchrony™ ePedigree

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.- To prevent counterfeit products from entering the healthcare supply chain, GE Healthcare has selected Axway’s award-winning Synchrony™ ePedigree solution. The hosted solution will provide GE Healthcare’s customers – healthcare professionals serving patients in clinics and hospitals — online access to the complete pedigree of GE Healthcare’s medical imaging and information products. Doctors and clinicians can easily receive, sign and authenticate the pedigrees, thereby validating the chain of custody when accepting shipments to help prevent product tampering and diversion.

"GE Healthcare appreciates the responsibility our customers have in preventing counterfeit medical technologies from reaching their patients, and we are working hard to make that process as easy as possible," said Barry Daniele, director, trade relations/e-commerce, GE Healthcare, Medical Diagnostics. "We turned to Axway because of its expertise in the life sciences supply chain and its ability to provide additional supply chain solutions should the need arise."

By selecting to use Axway's ePedigree as a hosted solution, GE Healthcare is able to give its customers detailed supply chain visibility without having to incur the cost, maintenance and infrastructure associated with traditional software applications. GE Healthcare can expect to realize traditional SaaS benefits including risk reduction, a significantly lower total-cost-of-ownership (TCO), and lower maintenance and IT skills upkeep.

"GE Healthcare works with more than 3,500 trading partners responsible for ensuring that only safe medical devices reach the community," said Kim Loughead, director, healthcare solutions, Axway. "Axway's hosted solution is an efficient way to authenticate pedigrees across the entire partner ecosystem without making a significant investment in IT infrastructure."

Axway's Synchrony Supply Chain Integrity Suite improves operational efficiency through supply chain visibility, assures data integrity in supply chain transactions, enables product authentication, streamlines reverse logistics processes and can be integrated with existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. For additional information on Synchrony Supply Chain Integrity Suite, please visit: http://www.axway.com/solutions/healthcare/supply_chain_integrity.php

For additional information on Synchrony ePedigree, please visit www.axway.com/pedigree.

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About Axway

Axway is the Business Interaction Networks company — the only provider in the market today to manage, run, secure, and monitor all of your business interactions, including email, files, messaging, services, events, and processes. Serving over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries, Axway facilitates the multi-enterprise transactions, processes and integration that accelerate business by eliminating the barriers between vendors, customers, departments, partners and suppliers. Axway's comprehensive offerings include business-to-business integration, managed file transfer, secure email, business activity monitoring, enterprise application integration, service-oriented architecture, business process management, track & trace and identity validation solutions. Axway provides professional and managed services, as well as cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Axway's global presence spans 20 countries.