Not All Medical Keyboards are Created Equal: Here’s How to Spot The Real Deal
Infection control in healthcare environments is critical to patient safety and producing good health outcomes, but it’s also all-too-often harder than it needs to be. That’s particularly true when it comes to medical equipment that is difficult or even impossible to...
How to Mitigate the Significant Infection Risk Created by Medical Equipment
Most medical groups likely underestimate the cleanliness of their portable medical equipment (PME), thanks to overly lax policies and/or policies not being followed. Chetan Jinadatha, MD, MPH, chief of infectious diseases at the Central Texas Veterans Health Care...
Thinking Long-Term: How Can Manufacturers of Critical Components Create a Sustainable Supply Chain Lasting the Entirety of a Pandemic
When it comes to manufacturing supply chains in the age of the coronavirus, the only thing we know for sure is how much we don’t know. How long will the pandemic and its effects on supply chains last? How bad will it get? How many shocks will supply chains suffer...
Manufacturing Medical Equipment that can Fight COVID-19 Alongside Healthcare Workers
Image Source: @ [sudok1] / Adobe Stock As hospitals worldwide continue gearing up for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s worth thinking about how the equipment they use can help. This question goes beyond top-level functionality. The core purpose of a vital...
