How To Create A Culture Of Safety Across A Growing Health System

Hospitals continue to fight the trends of declining reimbursements and increasing expenses with a multi-pronged attack. One of the favorite tools of larger health systems that are staving off shrinking margins is hospital consolidation. The idea goes that as more hospitals are brought into the health system, efficiencies can be gained by sending less profitable […]

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Mayo Clinic Physician Reiterates Need To Focus On Safe Endoscope Reprocessing

Hospitals continue to focus on duodenoscopes and their successful reprocessing in order to reduce the incidence of superbug breakouts related to endoscopes. The primary concern that hospitals have to address regarding duodenoscope reprocessing revolves around some of the manual components of disinfecting these devices. Bret T. Petersen, MD of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota

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How To Increase Endoscope Reprocessing Protocol Adherence With Technology

Flexible endoscopes have been the source of many superbug breakouts over the past decade. In order to protect your facility from the patient safety and legal nightmares that superbug breakouts lead to, you need to make sure that your staff is following your standard operating procedures for reprocessing endoscopes every single time. Even the best

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How To Create Accountability With RFID Technology

The procedural areas of hospitals, including the Cath and EP Labs, Interventional Radiology and the Operating Rooms, typically go through tens of millions of dollars per year in expensive implants and supplies. With so many different individuals – from reps, to techs, to nurses, to physicians – touching those expensive supplies, what can hospitals do

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How RFID Can Streamline Your Hospital’s Supply Chain

With hospitals turning over every cushion to find new ways to reduce costs without sacrificing quality of care, RFID technology is coming up more often as a worthwhile technology to consider in order to save millions of dollars per year. One of the most effective use cases for RFID technology in healthcare is to track

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Oregon Health & Science University Implements Endoscope Tracking Software As An Investment In Patient Safety

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) implemented the iRIScope endoscope tracking system from Mobile Aspects to help automate the documentation of reprocessing and storage practices for endoscopes in its new Center for Health & Healing Building 2(CHH2). As the only academic health center in the state, OHSU is where personalized patient care is combined with

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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 Your Endoscopes Being Reprocessed Too Slowly? How to Use Data to Speed Things Up

With all the protocols that endoscope techs and sterile processing staff must follow to properly high level disinfect every scope, flexible endoscopes can disappear into a black hole when they are needed most – only to pop up again when it is too late. There are several contributors to this inefficiency: long waiting periods in

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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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The Problem With Broken Endoscopes And How To Avoid Them

Flexible endoscopes can cost a hospital a lot of money – and cost patients valuable time – when going through avoidable repairs. Repairing flexible endoscopes often requires expensive maintenance from third-party organizations, delayed or canceled cases due to unusable scopes and procurement of expensive loaner scopes to handle the required workload. Spending time and effort

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