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Article: The technology behind the products: a Nursing Homes/Long Term Care Management sampling. (Product Design Showcase).
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- Nursing Homes
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Long-term care is a product-rich service. It's possible that no other sector in healthcare uses such a wide array of products, ranging from high-tech cardiac-care devices to furniture to food to wound dressings. Often overlooked, though, is the sheer amount of research effort and expense that underlies many of these products. [For a look at a full-blown research lab devoted to incontinence pad research, for example, see the story on SCA Hygiene's operation: "How One Manufacturer Takes On the Challenge of Incontinence," August 1999, p. 50.]
Recently, Nursing Homes/Long Term Care Management focused on a sampling of particularly innovative new products and asked ...