October 2022

Q I keep hearing the term MAUDE. What does it mean, is it a report, and why would a medical device reprocessing professional want to know this term?ALast month, I briefly mentioned...

AAMI recently published a new edition, ST79:2017,2 and this self-study article reviews some of the new information and key changes in the revised document.

If there were any doubts about the vital and growing role of telehealth in our lives, living through the pandemic certainly erased them all. Just like everything else in 2022,...

The Sterile Processing (SP) profession has undergone notable changes in recent years. Veteran SP professionals may recall days when instrumentation was simpler in design and easier...

Post-pandemic, what’s wrong with the status quo anyway?Following more than two years of pandemic-driven supply chain disruption and distrust, rife with backordering, hoarding,...

This month, we return to a perennial topic, recall management, prompted in part by the latest Sedgwick Recall Index, which shows significant increases in the number of medical...

Think of the headline as a metapolitan version of a famous Neapolitan song.What about meta? For the healthcare industry, meta symbolizes technologies available but not quite in...