Healthcare Setting Articles & Analysis

HealthySole President and CEO Nelson Patterson is interviewed in this article published in USAToday's supplement on the nursing profession. HealthySole Plus reduces the transmission of pathogens in any healthcare ...

By Healthy Sole, L.L.C.

HealtySOLE has launched a new PLUS model of its shoe sanitizer meant for use in hospitals and other settings where infection control is urgent. Researchers have proven a device using ultraviolet light technology can neutralize the coronavirus and other infectious diseases on the soles of shoes by more than 99.5 percent, according to a new study. “The device deactivated coronavirus ...

By Healthy Sole, L.L.C.

We’ve all crinkled our noses when we’ve caught a whiff of wet clothes that sat in the clothes hamper too long. They smell bad. Our noses are warning us that bacteria are growing in those smelly clothes - and some types of bacteria can be bad for us. Bacteria in Healthcare Settings Bacteria in healthcare settings may not just be smelly. Some types of bacteria can ...

By Perma Pure LLC - a Halma Company

Healthcare services are produced jointly by public and private service providers. Simultaneously they are each others' competitors, thus operating in a co–opetition setting. Co–operation enables producing healthcare services efficiently. However, the public service providers have to operate on budget funds providing services to everyone, while private service providers skim the shared patient ...

By Inderscience Publishers

Around 37 million people in the United States and around 700 million people worldwide have chronic kidney disease which require patients to utilize dialysis centers. These dialysis clinics provide lifesaving treatments to the patients that need them. While having any medical procedure performed, communication between the healthcare provider and the patient is vital to ...

By Safe’N’Clear, Inc.

C.Diff is one of the most pervasive and deadly pathogens of interest in hospitals today. It is both incredibly resilient and infectious. If contracted, patients must undergo involved care which often includes powerful antibiotics that come with their own detrimental effects to the patient. Thus, hospitals have taken a wide range of strategic infection protocol steps to curb the spread of ...

By Healthy Sole, L.L.C.

Klebsiella pneumoniae is a significant causative agent of hospital- and community-acquired infections, presenting with various clinical manifestations. Notably, the rapid spread of carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae (CRKP) has become a global threat, leading to high morbidity and mortality rates. In this context, researchers have employed high-throughput sequencing to investigate drug resistance ...

By CD Genomics

How To Conduct a Sustainability Gap Analysis for Healthcare Packaging Sustainability in modern healthcare is fundamental for mitigating environmental impact and contributing to the health of the planet. Sustainability in the healthcare packaging industry, for instance, is crucial to effectively reduce waste, conserve valuable resources, and promote sustainable practices. To achieve these ...

By Plastic Ingenuity

Resting energy expenditure (REE) is the largest part of human energy expenditure (60-70%) and an increase or decrease in REE would have a large impact on total energy expenditure[1]. Any state of disease, whether critical or not, may directly or indirectly affect REE, subsequently impacting a patient's nutritional needs[2]. Measuring Resting Energy Expenditure (REE) is crucial in clinical and ...

By Cubic Sensor and Instrument Co., Ltd

Good decision-making relies on good information. That’s why data collection is so important to businesses of all types. In healthcare, it can literally be a life-and-death concern. Currently, two data-related trends are delivering new levels of optimization in hospitals with the potential to vastly improve operations and safety: The convergence of information technology (IT) systems ...

By Schneider Electric

Over the past decade, cloud computing has undergone remarkable expansion. The collective revenue generated by AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft surged from $49 billion in 2018 to an astonishing $206 billion in 2022.[i] Projections from Future Market Insights indicate that the revenue from cloud services is poised to maintain an impressive average annual growth rate of 21%, reaching a staggering ...

By Caresyntax

This case study discusses hospital readmissions and provides healthcare professionals with recommended medical algorithms in the form of scores, models, and calculators that can aid in reducing readmissions, especially when related to antibiotic resistant microbiological pathogens. When health analytics, such as the CDC antibiotic resistance program and other algorithms are integrated into ...

By The Medical Algorithms Company Limited

By Hiden Analytical Ltd.

I recently had the pleasure of attending the IPEG annual meeting in Sorrento, Italy. The collegiality of the surgeons attending the conference was fantastic, and the views of Sorrento and the Island of Capri were stunning. With smaller accessible markets (due to smaller patient volumes and higher incidence of rare disease), specialty areas like pediatrics have been overlooked and under-addressed ...

By Caresyntax

Medical care delivery has gone through remarkable changes in the previous decade. In the last five to 10 years, medical services’ digitization has quickened dramatically because of inventive government strategies, changes in customer inclinations, a flood of funding, a developing number of computerized wellbeing business people, and proceeded with ventures by industry occupants. The ...

By Qualityze Inc

Patients who need medical treatment often fear being exposed to harmful germs and unsanitary instruments. Just the thought of a healthcare provider using an unsterilized surgical device or needle is enough to make people feel queasy. As a result, patients find it reassuring to watch a clinician remove healthcare devices from sterile packaging before starting a procedure. Sterile packaging ...

By Plastic Ingenuity

2021 is bringing about a new set of challenges for the healthcare supply chain. Vaccinations are beginning to rollout, and at the same time, COVID-19 cases are increasing. Premier, Inc. has just released analysis of both historic and predictive data from its supply chain forecasting technology. In their analysis, they identify the current healthcare supply categories at risk- shortages are ...

By Sterifre Medical, Inc.

The person behind the moniker attributed to the wave of new hospitals constructed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic is a remarkable figure in British history. Born on 12 May 1820, Florence Nightingale, long depicted as a saintly nurse who saved thousands of lives, was a much more complex character than this. In fact, she was a mathematical genius who used her talent to strategise healthcare and ...

By Inciner8 Limited

Abstract This good clinical practice paper provides an overview of the current evidence around second stage care, highlighting the challenges and the importance of maintaining high-quality, safe, and respectful care in all settings. It includes a series of recommendations based on best available evidence regarding length of second stage, judicious use of episiotomy, and the importance of ...

By Medinvent Ltd

Stuart Campbell, Clinical Sales Development Manager of the Neurological Products Division at Renishaw, discusses key trends on the use of robotics in neurosurgery. The curious case of Phineas Gage is one of the earliest and best known cases of serious brain injury. On September 13th, 1848, Gage was working as a railway foreman in Vermont when an explosion caused a three foot long iron rod to be ...

By Renishaw plc