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People, Places, Processes & Products that Influence the Supply Chain

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February 2010

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Will supply chain meet or postpone standards adoption deadlines?

By January 2011, at least hundreds of hospitals are expected to have implemented some type of device data standards in some fashion within their supply chains, regardless of any recommendations and regulations emerging from the Food and Drug Administration. Or will they?

Standard Procedure
Alliance subgroup throws down device data standards gauntlet

Up Close
with Jay Crowley as the FDA negotiates the standards stalemate

Operating Room

Connect the dots, data lines between OR, SPD

SPD may have been given short shrift when it comes to information technology even as the OR operates its own IT systems, but experts agree that software or online services that troubleshoot and provide preventive maintenance or otherwise connect SPD to the OR could enable the OR and the SPD to work together more efficiently and productively.

Infection Connection
2010 Personal Protection Equipment Guide

Personal protective equipment, PPE, is what allows caregivers to do their job without fear of contracting deadly infections. Everyday they suit up in gloves, gowns, masks, eye and facial protection, depending on the anticipated exposure. Healthcare Purchasing News offers tips and tools to gear up for battling stronger bugs.

Armed, shielded to evade danger from microbial foes

PPE Vendor Chart

PPE Product Spotlights

Central Services

Marked improvements build stronger case for instrument tracking

Patient safety advocates, healthcare efficiency experts, vendors, and sterile processing and surgical services professionals long have touted the benefits of instrument tracking solutions. While a growing number get the message, many have yet to take the leap, offering myriad excuses, most of which are rooted in longstanding misconceptions.

 

Self Study Series
The facts about parametric release Can it work in your facility?

CS Solutions
Instruments used on CJD patients; failed internal chemical integrators

Products and Services

Data standards for vendor reps debatable

With healthcare organizations converging on supply data standards, electronic health records and clinical information technology adoption and implementation by the midpoint of this new decade it only makes sense that vendor credentialing software be part of the mix. Or does it?

Capital Gains
Needle in a healthcare haystack?
by Irwin A. Baker

People & Opinions

Fast Foreward

Newsmaker
Kept in the dark:
Supply chain’s absence in building projects has some seeing red

What Works
Health system streamlines processes and controls costs through automation

Back Talk
Unlock higher savings with new discovery skills
by Robert T. Yokl

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