Recently added articles from Healthcare Purchasing News:
The missing link.(FAST FOREWARD)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Separate infection prevention from supply chain at your own peril. No matter if you're referring to the people who do it or the process itself. Flash backward some 20 years ago and the notion that purchasing/materials managers and infection control practitioners should be ...
IAHCSCMM announces award winners at annual conference.(NEWSWIRE)(Conference news)(Awards list)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Award for Dedicated Service, Recipient: Richard Schule, CRCST, CHMMC, FCS, CST, MBA, BS New President 2009-2011, Incoming President: Lisa Huber, CRCST, ACE, FCS, BA Ruth Anne Brooks, RN Past Presidents, $1000 check, Receipient: Aaron Cloward, CRCST, Primary ...
Healthcare quality is suboptimal and continues to improve at a slow pace.(NEWSWIRE)
Jun 01, 2009 ... For the past 6 years, the National Health Quality Report (NHQR) has summarized the state of healthcare quality. This undertaking is difficult, as no single national healthcare quality survey collects a standard set of data elements from the same defined population for the same period each ...
Pandemic flu resources available on AHRMM website.(NEWSWIRE)
Jun 01, 2009 ... AHRMM has created an online library for Supply Chain related Pandemic Flu Resources. This collection of resources will make it easier for you to find the latest information and updates, including slides of AHRMM's Webinar--Pandemic Flu Preparedness and ...
Fast stats.(NEWSWIRE)
Jun 01, 2009 ... $30.5 BILLION is the estimated hospital costs of hospital-acquired infections in the United States. 2,000,000 is the estimated number of infections per year. $15,275 is the average additional hospital cost for a patient contracting an infection. 119% is ...
Connecting, signing on the dotted line: revenue cycle, supply chain links straddle the data divide.(NEWS)(Company overview)
Jun 01, 2009; ... One of the buzzworthy phrases making the rounds in healthcare information technology circles is "closed-loop solutions." But in the cloudy realms of revenue cycle and supply chain management connections, closed loop is more conceptual than commonplace. In reality, the IT ...
Supply chain a loss cause in bleak economy: GPO exec offers 10 steps to survive in today's troubled times.(UP CLOSE)
Jun 01, 2009; ... When the going gets tough, the tough may call in a consultant, but that's not so easy to do when the economy tanks and our facility's financial fortunes run dry. Yet this is the perfect time for supply chain management to rise up, control its destiny, take charge of what it can ...
Dell, Apple, bridge IT with imaging.(NEWS)
Jun 01, 2009; ... CHICAGO -- As pop culture icons in the general consumer and business worlds, the Dell and Apple names remain two of the more recognizable computer hardware brands in the United States, so when both displayed and demonstrated product at a more targeted show like the imaging-centric ...
Complications and costs for obesity surgery declining.(Outpatient Connection)
Jun 01, 2009 ... A new study by the Department of Health & Human Services' (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) found that the average rate of post-surgical and other complications in patients who have obesity surgery, also known as bariatric surgery, declined 21 percent between 2002 and ...
FDA, FTC warn of fraudulent H1N1 influenza products.(Outpatient Connection)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission are alerting the public to be wary of Internet sites and other promotions for products that claim to diagnose, prevent, mitigate, treat or cure the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. The agencies are also advising operators of ...
Hot topic: managing temperature optimizes patient outcomes.(OPERATING ROOM)
Jun 01, 2009; ... There was a time when temperature management mainly was limited to selection of which orifice to use for the thermometer. Options today are light years ahead of what was available only a few short decades ago. Temperature can be manipulated--increased or decreased--to treat, or even ...
Infection preventionists, vendors must 'speak the same language'.(2009 INFECTION CONTROL BUYER'S GUIDE)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Infection prevention is on everyone's radar these days. Just as hospitals are scrambling to ramp up their arsenal of policies, procedures and products to help fight healthcare acquired infections (HAIs) -infection preventionists are also being tasked with increasing regulation and ...
A novel approach to surface disinfection.
Jun 01, 2009 ... New research on thermal surface disinfection, in which moist heat is delivered directly to contaminated surfaces by a commercial steam vapor system, was published in the February 2009 issue of the American Journal of Infection Control An alternative to chemical disinfectants, ...
EPA registers copper alloys as antimicrobial.
Jun 01, 2009 ... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the registration of antimicrobial copper alloys, with public health claims acknowledging that copper, brass and bronze are capable of killing harmful, potentially deadly bacteria. Copper is the first solid surface ...
Expanding the infection prevention toolkit.
Jun 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While there are many tried and true products that are the staple of any infection preventionist's toolkit, it's also important to be on the lookout for new developments that can enhance existing efforts. According to Sue Barnes, national ...
High-touch equals high-risk: surface cleaning plus hand hygiene key to HAI prevention.(2009 INFECTION CONTROL BUYER'S GUIDE)
Jun 01, 2009 ... With the ever increasing proliferation of superbugs, comes not only a need for new products and protocols but also a look back at fundamental interventions. "Hand hygiene and environmental cleaning and disinfection are the two primary interventions that we can make and those are definitely ...
Advanced vapor technologies.(INFECTION CONTROL SPOTLIGHTS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TANCS Steam Vapor Wipes Out MRSA, VRE and C. Diff. Studies with MRSA, VRE and C. Diff. demonstrate complete surface disinfection within just 5 seconds. Recent studies at Texas-based Antimicrobial Test Laboratories have confirmed TANCS Steam ...
Gojo.(INFECTION CONTROL SPOTLIGHTS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... PURELL Instant Hand Sanitizer Skin Nourishing Foam is a non-aerosal, alcohol-based foam hand sanitizer with the exclusive DERMAGLYCERIN SYSTEM. Formulated with a synergistic blend of seven moisturizers, PURELL Instant Hand Sanitizer Skin Nourishing Foam with DERMAGLYCERIN SYSTEM is ...
Fiberlock.(INFECTION CONTROL SPOTLIGHTS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The Kontrol Kube Complete is the only system to join containment unit and negative air machine together creating a completely mobile solution. This system unites the Kontrol Kube containment unit and wheel base with the newly designed AirBase and Negative Air Machine. When the wheel base ...
New Protex disinfectant spray one--step disinfectant: Parker Laboratories.(INFECTION CONTROL SPOTLIGHTS)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Parker Laboratories announces the immediate availability of Protex Disinfectant Spray. Protex is a powerful, one-step disinfectant effective against MRSA, HIV, Staph, and many others. Protex is powerful against a broad spectrum of ...