Aramark opens innovation center in N.C.

Aramark, a provider of diagnostic and imaging services, announced the opening of Healthcare Technology & Innovation Center in Charlotte, N.C.

The 105,000-ft. center, which employs 140 people, is tasked with developing more efficient ways for hospitals to manage clinical equipment assets. It includes simulated patient care suites with more than 32 active magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography scan, catheterization laboratory and x-ray systems, according to Aramark.

The center “brings together all of our subject matter expertise–from supply chain to research and development to bolster our capabilities to plan and manage customized programs that optimize our hospital partners’ investment in clinical equipment assets,” according to Victor Crawford, COO of Aramark’s healthcare sector.