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  • March 2023

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    Infection Prevention

    Infection prevention challenges require new solutions

    Brenda Silva
    Feb. 23, 2023
    Effective information, training, and staffing remain keys to successful cleaning and disinfection.
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    Sourcing & Logistics

    Advanced tech may turn heads, not hearts

    Rick Dana Barlow
    Feb. 23, 2023
    Not every healthcare organization’s consolidated service center, warehouse or storeroom can be rigged to function as a teched-out assembly line, anchored with automated guided...
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    Surgical/Critical Care

    Communication, effort, time ignite OR quick wins

    Rick Dana Barlow
    Feb. 23, 2023
    For some hospital supply chain teams, working with the Operating Room or Surgical Services department can be a chore or depending on personalities, a necessary evil. But for one...
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    Gloves
    Infection Prevention

    Let’s give gloves a hand

    Scott Tomko
    Feb. 23, 2023
    The production of superior gloves within the medical field continues to expand and evolve.As we enter in to 2023, gloves have become a booming, billion-dollar industry that has...
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    Sterile Processing

    Updated ANSI/AAMI ST91: progress to date and challenges faced one year later

    Kara Nadeau
    Feb. 23, 2023
    March 2023 marks one year since the final ANSI/AAMI ST91:2021, flexible and semi-rigid endoscope processing in healthcare facilities was published. The updated standard is intended...

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    Continuing Education

    Washer-Disinfector and Cart Washer Racks

    Feb. 23, 2023
    Using the right rack; choosing the right cycle; and servicing the washer-disinfector are critical to the success of cleaning.
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    Sterile Processing

    Water quality and hardness: to spot, or not to spot?

    Stephen M. Kovach
    Feb. 23, 2023
    Q “We have what I call a ‘white film’ on the inside of our washer. What are your thoughts?”AI have seen inside washer disinfectors (WD) in many departments (Figure 1) that fit...
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    Sterile Processing

    2023 HSPA Conference Brings Top SP Education to Nashville

    Julie E. Williamson
    Feb. 23, 2023
    HSPA’s Annual Conference is the Sterile Processing (SP) profession’s leading in-person educational and networking event, drawing more than 1,000 attendees across all SP titles...
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    Sourcing & Logistics

    Artificial intelligence and fake news: imagining the potential for AI chatbots

    Karen Conway
    Feb. 23, 2023
    If you are like me, you are intrigued by the recent hype around ChatGPT, and its potential applications in healthcare and the supply chain. I have started using the AI chatbot...
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    Sourcing & Logistics

    Calling time out

    Rick Dana Barlow
    Feb. 23, 2023
    Fallout from the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster motivated the publication of a popular political cartoon sporting the caption, “The O-Ring Committee,” a reference to the...
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    Surgical/Critical Care

    The health of healthcare

    Feb. 23, 2023
    Just how scary a place is the modern hospital? Well, the statistics don’t lie. The places that we rely on to heal and receive top medical care can be potential breeding grounds...
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