Some of the top stories this month include:

 

News

On the Cover:

Supply chain a C-faring topic for hospital chiefs

Price hikes spiking for commodity products

Federal reuse regs fall short,
trade group leader urges

 

Infection Connection

Infection rate reporting and the EHR miles apart

 

Continuing education: Implant sterilization: Basic questions and answers

 

CS Solutions/Questions: Maintaining service records; lot control labeling; absorbent towels

Sterile processing migrates towards electronic record-keeping

 

Operating Room

Surgical errors:
New products, protocols
help slash the risks

Products and Services
ASSET MANAGEMENT
Taking charge of managing assets heightens productivity, reduces downtime

Improving equipment management practices has hospital seeing green

Scan the horizon for clinical success via enlightened technology planning

 

Clinical Business Solutions Clinical supply management
success in 2006

 

What Works


Improving patient identification: a key target for U.S. hospitals

 

People and Opinions

Having my say: Recycling program strong at Gunderson Lutheran


Newsmaker: Specialty bed rental –
A love/hate relationship


Back Talk: Putting ‘best practices’ into daily practice

 

Fast Foreward


Are force majeure vendors overreacting like a pain in the gas?

 

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January
2006