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January 2010

News

SURE 2010: Navigating supply chain’s C-scape

While an economic recession can draw out the best and worst attributes that delineate leaders from managers, it also generates a number of sure-fire mores in healthcare you can take to the bank: CEOs who already may be in the hot seat have the burners turned up to full strength, and supply chain management operations suddenly become so much more critical.

Up Close
with Provena Health’s Meg Trimby

Operating Room

Bariatric products continue to expand their scope

Glancing quickly at the statistics and it’s easy to see the compounding magnitude of the problems associated with obesity – a disease that affects more than 34 percent of adults beginning at age 20 in the United States, equating to more than 72 million people. It’s a trend that motivates many healthcare organizations to standardize on higher-weight capacity equipment facility-wide.

Bariatric Product Focus

Bariatric Vendor Chart

Infection Connection

Bundling designed to push infections into
the cold

Bundling implies putting on layers of protection to battle against the elements of cold. In the clinical field of infection prevention, the logic is similar as it relates to a short list of steps that must be performed during certain routines that is born of evidence-based best practices.

Central Services

Interdepartmental links priceless for sterilization success

When it comes to driving good sterilization practices and outcomes, many sterile processing professionals will agree that successful interdepartmental communication is too valuable to overlook but challenging to make happen.

Forward progress: Consultants, vendors outline sterilization best practices – and shortcomings

Driving sterilization best practice starts with proper instrument cleaning

Self Study Series
Loaner instrument tray management: A shared responsibility

CS Solutions

Products and Services

Under the gun of H1N1

Until the virus designated H1N1, commonly called swine flu, emerged as a potent threat, the healthcare industry had limited hands-on experience dealing with a pandemic, so-called of any kind. So here in the middle of flu season after plenty of warnings, what’s the verdict to date? Healthcare Purchasing News collects and dishes the grades.

What Works
Reposable laparoscopic surgical system improves outcomes, reduces costs
with John H. Marks

New Products

People & Opinions

Fast Foreward

Newsmaker
SMI Conference: Supply chain leaders focus on transformation

Having My Say
STERIS System 1, FDA update
by Kris Russell

Back Talk
Tightening up strategic sourcing efforts
by David S. Kaczmarek

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