Healthcare Facility Articles & Analysis

Australian med-tech start-up Field Orthopaedics (FO), creators of innovative devices like the MicroScrew and NX Nail for the hand trauma market, have today announced a distribution partnership with Veteran’s Health Medical Supply in the US. Veteran’s Health Medical Supply was established in 2006, by a team of veterans and civilians, with the experience and commitment needed to ...

By Field Orthopaedics

On February 17, 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidance revising its recommendation regarding controlling Candida auris (C. auris) infections in U.S. healthcare facilities. The CDC guidance now recommends a “thorough daily and terminal cleaning and disinfection” of patient rooms in which ...

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Founding Water Council member, Zurn Industries, a Rexnord Company, has pledged one million dollars in hygienic product donations to qualifying healthcare facilities currently addressing COVID-19. Products, including sensor faucets, soap dispensers, flush valves, sinks and hand dryers, will help improve hygiene by reducing the transfer of pathogens from surfaces or objects. “Zurn’s ...

By The Water Council

Founding Water Council member, Zurn Industries, a Rexnord Company, has pledged one million dollars in hygienic product donations to qualifying healthcare facilities currently addressing COVID-19. Products, including sensor faucets, soap dispensers, flush valves, sinks and hand dryers, will help improve hygiene by reducing the transfer of pathogens from surfaces or objects. “Zurn’s ...

By The Water Council

Countless people live productive and fulfilling lives with immune systems that are weakened due to inherited genetic defects, physical conditions, illnesses, past medical procedures or because of prescription drugs taken for various reasons. These individuals need to be especially aware of common microbial pathogens that are often found all around us. These pathogens may include various ...

By Clark Seif Clark Inc.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one out of every twenty hospital patients acquires an infection while being treated for another illness. Reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) has become a central focus of the CDC in recent years and many healthcare facilities across Illinois have been on the frontline of these efforts. Healthcare-associated ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

Candidiasis is caused by fungal pathogens from the Candida genus. Most infections are caused by Candida albicans, a type of fungus that grows both as a yeast and filamentous cells. The ubiquitous fungi represent one of the most common fungal pathogens to affect the human population. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Invasive candidiasis is a fungal ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

Sanford, Florida (January 6, 2021) — Omega Medical Imaging, the leading innovator in AI image-guided interventional systems for hospitals and healthcare facilities around the world, unveiled a new logo that emphasizes Omega’s dedication as a high-tech company that breaks from conventional thinking. After careful review of the company’s former logo created in 2013, Omega ...

By Omega Medical Imaging, LLC.

Metrex Research Corporation (“Metrex”) is proud to announce the unveiling of its new and improved web site. The site will launch early May. Features include improved content organization for both distributors and healthcare professionals, an updated look and feel, and improved support for mobile devices. Metrex believes that no one should ever have to fight for their health over an ...

By Metrex Research, LLC.

Designed for labs with MALDI platforms, the Accelerate Arc Module and BC kit is a novel application of inline centrifugation and automated sample prep techniques, which together with the blood culture (BC) kit, provides a suspension of cleaned microbial cells for direct transfer to a MALDI spotting plate. Accelerate Arc system now available as a registered IVD Today we announced the completed ...

By Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc.

Our Refurbished Accsense A2-05 Temperature Monitoring Systems and our Demo Accsense Wireless Monitoring Systemsare 25% off now through January 31, 2019. While supplies last. Refurbished and 100% tested, they are the ideal solution for the temperature monitoring and alarming needs of clinics, health departments, hospital pharmacies, and other healthcare facilities around the world. Accsense ...

By CAS DataLoggers

By 2022, Southeast Asia commits to the healthcare industry by investing more than $3 Billion through smart hospitals, digitalization, operational efficiency, clinical excellence, patient-centricity and technological advances in order to address its promise in providing accessible, affordable and quality healthcare services. Thailand’s strong support to its healthcare industry is leading ...

By naseba Lnoppen Co. Ltd - part of the naseba group

We are now gaining an understanding of the impact of this global pandemic. Infection rate drives the need for better data collection, analysis and reporting in real-time. Addressing contamination control for our healthcare facilities becomes ground zero in preventing and controlling an outbreak. In their efforts to fight the pandemic and contain its spread, Novatek Medical Data Systems has ...

By Novatek Medical Data Systems

Sanford, Florida (March 9, 2021) — Omega Medical Imaging, the leading innovator in AI image-guided interventional systems for hospitals and healthcare facilities around the world, released a radiation comparative study proving significant dose reduction is achieved when using AI image-guided systems compared to non-AI systems. The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of an AI ...

By Omega Medical Imaging, LLC.

On Thursday, November 18, 2010, leading worldwide lodging franchisor Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) joins signature cause partner, Rebuilding Together for the second annual "Room to Rebuild" project, revitalizing a Phoenix area healthcare facility. Choice Hotels has been a partner of Rebuilding Together since September 2009, debuting its "Room to Rebuild" partnership to help ...

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

The environmental professionals at Clark Seif Clark (CSC) help medical facilities and infection control professionals combat the growing threat of drug-resistant microbial contaminants. A deadly bacterium with a gene that produces an enzyme that allows it to disable carbapenam antibiotics was recently reported on by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The enzyme, Klebsiella ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

Infection control procedures including work practices, protocols and controls, environmental hygiene, air filtration and appropriate use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) are all necessary to prevent infections from spreading during healthcare service delivery. But in the case of the recent Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak early detection and isolation of potentially infectious patients is ...

By Genano Industrial Air Purification Solutions - Genano Ltd.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report published on October 3, 2024, linked Burkholderia multivorans infections to ice machines in multiple healthcare facilities in the western United States. This post summarizes key findings, implications, and recommended practices for healthcare providers to ensure patient ...

By Liquitech, Inc.

Hospitals are safe places to work - right? Well, maybe not. US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2014 (the most recent year published) show that total recordable case rate for hospitals (injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers) is 6.2. The hospital injury rate is higher than in mining (3.8), hazardous waste treatment and disposal (4.6), and manufacturing (4.0). Now ...

By Antea Group - USA

MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, occurs more frequently in the summer and fall, according to new research. Dr. Leonard Mermel, lead author and medical director of the department of epidemiology and infection control at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, and his team analyzed MRSA samples from the hospitals microbiology department that were taken over a 10-year period. Their ...

By SteraMist Disinfection