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Global Healthcare Company Mobile Aspects Announces Industry-First Blood Product

The product, iRISecure Blood, is an industry-first RFID transfusion and safety system for hospital emergency departments and trauma centers. [Pittsburgh, PA – October 19, 2021] Mobile Aspects, a global healthcare software company that helps hospitals become safer and more efficient, today announced the first end-to-end RFID Bloodbag tracking system, iRISecure Blood. This new solution is […]

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How To Improve Documentation Compliance With A Bloodbag Tracking System

Emergency rooms are some of the most hectic workplaces in America. With daily arrivals of trauma patients and other patients in major distress, processes often break down in the face of life-and-death emergencies. In situations like these, hospitals must rely on their established systems to ensure that required documentation and other workflows are completed as

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Having Trouble Tracking Scopes That Are Being Repaired? This Technology Can Help

Endoscopes, as flexible instruments that frequently need to be repaired due to wear and tear, often become very difficult to track as they leave and enter the hospital. Managers of Endoscopy and PeriOperative departments may see a constant stream of endoscopes being sent out for repair and loaner scopes being sent back to them for

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How One Hospital Avoided A Patient Safety Disaster Using Scope Tracking Software

Flexible endoscopes present a unique challenge for hospitals to track and manage – these expensive medical instruments must be quickly re-processed after usage in order to provide the required instrumentation for the next procedure, yet they must undergo rigorous, time-consuming reprocessing after every use to ensure the highest levels of patient safety. Due to different

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FDA Recalls Allergan Textured Breast Implants

The United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) recalled a specific type of breast implant manufactured by Allergan. The recall, announced earlier in 2019, included the textured Biocell breast implants and expanders. The implants have been linked to a certain cancer, called BIA-ALCL. While the exact link between these implants and the cancer is unknown,

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Leading Heart Hospital Expands Use Of Supply Automation System From Mobile Aspects To Increase Efficiencies

A leading heart hospital in Texas has expanded its use of a leading supply automation technology to reduce costs and increase efficiencies in its Operating Rooms (ORs). The hospital has been regarded as one of the top cardiology focused hospitals in the state of Texas since it opened over a decade ago. The hospital has

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Are Stock Outs Giving You Headaches? How To Eliminate Them With Supply Automation Software

With many hospitals still relying on manual processes or antiquated technologies for managing their expensive supplies and implants, they are facing a multitude of consequences that are affecting their ability to provide safe and efficient healthcare. Some of the consequences of inadequate supply management techniques include using expired implants, gross overstocking of supplies, poor revenue

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Are You Reprocessing Endoscopes Efficiently?

In today’s environment, Endoscopy and PeriOperative departments need to be very careful to follow their endoscope reprocessing protocols extremely closely. With all the reports of superbug outbreaks due to the inadequate disinfection of scopes, it is the primary job of sterile processing (or whichever department oversees reprocessing scopes) to provide safe endoscopes to use on

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Track Tissue From Dock To Patient With This Automation Technology

Many Perioperative departments have told us that their recent visits by The Joint Commission (TJC) included a more in-depth review of their tissue implant logs. A number of Perioperative administrators and nurses agreed that during their last visit from TJC they wanted to see a higher level of documentation when it comes to tracking tissue

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Having Trouble Tracking Loaner Scopes? This Technology Can Help

Managers of Endoscopy and PeriOperative departments often see a constant stream of endoscopes being sent out for repair and loaner scopes being sent back to them for “temporary” use. However, it is all too common for these loaner scopes to become a permanent part of their scope fleet – they are hard to track and

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