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  • January 2020

    • January 2020

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    Sourcing & Logistics

    Smart storerooms, wireless warehouses

    Rick Dana Barlow
    Dec. 19, 2019
    From blank check to budget crunch, updates may be fundamental but not infinite
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    Sourcing & Logistics

    Storeroom/Warehouse (re)design: Man versus or with machine?

    Rick Dana Barlow
    Dec. 19, 2019
    As healthcare supply chain executives and professionals enter the third decade of the 21st century (and third millennium), chatter continues to build on just how much automation...
    Photo courtesy Intermountain Healthcare
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    Sourcing & Logistics

    Budget-based storage design/redesign doesn’t have to be cost-confining

    Rick Dana Barlow
    Dec. 19, 2019
    Realistically, when designing or redesigning a storeroom or warehouse, supply chain executives and professionals must navigate within the confines of a constraining budget.Some...
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    Surgical/Critical Care

    Clinicians under pressure to detect, prevent injuries

    Ebony Smith
    Dec. 19, 2019
    Pressure injuries (PIs), also known as pressure ulcers or pressure wounds, continue to rise and harm patients throughout the U.S. PIs are difficult to detect, cause pain and infections...

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    Antibiotic Stewardship

    Fast Stats - January 2020

    Dec. 19, 2019
    In the report, The Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019, the continuing impact of antibiotic-resistant (AR) germs on people and communities is highlighted....
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    Infection Prevention

    Don’t try to outsmart your infusion pumps, catheters and related devices

    Susan Cantrell
    Dec. 19, 2019
    Seventeenth-century English physician Thomas Sydenham is credited with the axiom “first, do no harm.” This advice on patient safety still stands today, a few centuries later, ...
    Photo courtesy: SpecialtyCare
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    Sterile Processing

    The quandary of assuring quality

    Kara Nadeau
    Dec. 19, 2019
    In the fast-paced, demanding and often under-resourced central sterile/sterile processing department (CS/SPD) environment, it can be extremely challenging to ensure process quality...
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    Continuing Education

    Writing a winning process change proposal

    Dec. 19, 2019
    Process improvement requires formal written proposals. To gain approval, it’s important to include all the necessary elements.
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    Sterile Processing

    Active chapter involvement drives quality outcomes, opportunity

    Julie E. Williamson
    Dec. 19, 2019
    New and veteran Sterile Processing (SP) professionals who aren’t currently a member of an IAHCSMM chapter – or belong to a chapter but don’t participate to the fullest – should...
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    Sterile Processing

    Breaking down reprocessing process; blood cells role; instrument pack weight

    Ray Taurasi
    Dec. 19, 2019
    Submit your questions: email: [email protected] it essential to sanitize all soiled items returned to CS or are decontamination and disinfection sufficient prior to sterilization...
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    Sourcing & Logistics

    Future-proofing product alerts and recalls

    Rick Dana Barlow
    Dec. 19, 2019
    With access to all of the resources and technology available now or in the very near future, one might argue convincingly that healthcare organizations have what they need to ...
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    Sourcing & Logistics

    Stepping stones, stumbling blocks

    Dec. 19, 2019
    As the post-holiday bills come due this month we should enter the New Year with some levity and “clarity of vision.” Okay, enough with the feeble 20/20 references. In healthcare...
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    Surgical/Critical Care

    Preoperative skin antisepsis

    Dec. 19, 2019
    Is it time to expand the playing field?
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    Sourcing & Logistics

    Getting it right the first time: The power of standardization

    Karen Conway
    Dec. 19, 2019
    As discussed many times in this column, one of the primary benefits of standardization – be it in process or in products - is the ability to reduce “uncontrolled” variation that...
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    Sourcing & Logistics

    A call to … [f]arms!

    Ed Hardin
    Dec. 19, 2019
    Looking back at the past three years, having experienced leadership time in resurgent rust-belt states, I’ve had a running list of top three concerns that have managed to shift...
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    Sourcing & Logistics

    January 2020 Featured Products & Services

    Dec. 19, 2019
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