What is MedApproved?

• A web-based system that supports Sentara Healthcare’s committees with new product reviews.
• Allows electronic interaction and communication between vendors, clinicians, committee representatives, materials management, and sponsors.
• A system that supports collaborative decision making regarding new products and services in healthcare.

Why Sentara Uses MedApproved

• Provides historical documentation of all medical product and most technology request.
• Increases the overall efficiency of the review process.
• Serves as a repository for documents, articles, clinical evidence, marketing materials, and evaluation results.
• Provides a method for tracking an item from the time the product is requested until it is either approved or declined
• Sentara requires all vendor product requests to have a clinical sponsor