Some of the top stories this month include:

 

News

CS Department of the Year

Performing like a finely tuned device processing machine
NYU Medical Center CSS department flexes might and mind

 

Up Close

Distributor CEO extends reach from hospital bedside to the home
Owens & Minor’s Craig Smith looks to the future with the past in sight

 

Operating Room
Surgical Apparel

Well-dressed surgeons demand fit, form and function


Infection Connection
Preventing nosocomial infection:
Help is available for pushing best practices forward

 

CS Solutions
Count sheets; Flash sterilization; New steam sterilization document

Self Study Series
Bowie-Dick testing, then and now

2006 CS/SPD Salary Survey
sheds positive light on driven staffers


Products and Services

Capital Equipment Guide

● Balancing the art and science of
   equipment planning

  
How choosing the right partner makes dollars

   and sense

● Choosing what to do with excess
   equipment

  
Scrapping, reusing, selling or donating all have

   significant consequences

● To loan or to lease?
  
For many, that’s the big question with new

   technology acquisition

● How three numbers may
   threaten leasing opportunities

   IRS coding technicality requires fine-print

   reading

● Web Spinning for Capital
   Equipment Services

   Planning for capital equipment requires

   considerable research for the right sources.

 

What Works
Predictive analysis helps facility evaluate GI operational options
Hospital propels its endoscopy center to the next level with efficiencies

 

People & Opinions

Building supply chain leadership and resources for the future
Progressive systems call for managing multiple networks

 

Clinical Business Strategies
Taking a stand against influencing clinical practice
The federal government zeroes in on controversial financial arrangements

 

Fast Forward
Feds toy with civil libertease

 

Having My Say
On borrowed time:
Caveat emptor with loaner devices

by Stephen M. Kovach

 

Back Talk

Best practice:
Tracking operational performance

by David Kaczmarek, FAHRMM, CMRP



 

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September
2006