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Why Primary Care Needs Digital Support Tools to Meet the Moment
COVID’s Delta variant continues its mass spread, with US hospitalizations crossing 100,000 for the second time in the pandemic. But even as COVID puts a strain on our care systems, physicians and other care professionals are still tasked with primary and acute care of their usual patients, while also minimizing their touch points with COVID-full…
Intellego: Expert Advice for Choosing and Using UV-C Disinfection Systems for Your Facility
“Deploying UV-C technology requires meeting facility needs and ensuring they know how to use it and validate it that it’s working properly.” Disinfection is at the forefront of everyone’s mind in a pandemic. As a result, most facilities need a portfolio of tools to support this, with UV-C being one of those. But how can…
How One Company Innovated to Keep Healthcare Workers Safe
When the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States, one of the first warning signs that medical facilities weren’t prepared for the effects of the virus was the lack of personal protective equipment available to frontline healthcare workers. Manufacturers have risen to meet this challenge and innovated beyond what we had seen before. One manufacturer, Bullard,…
As Ransomware Attacks Rise, How Can Healthcare Organizations Cope?
The pandemic accelerated several trends in healthcare, but perhaps none lined up more with the stressors of mass virality as telehealth solutions. Estimates from McKinsey predict that up to $250 billion in US healthcare spending could be shifted to virtual care. As health systems take on this digital transformation, how should hospitals optimize as well…
What the US Needs to Shift $250 Billion Towards Virtual Healthcare
Even as COVID challenged the world’s healthcare infrastructures, one of the silver lining stories of last year was the accelerated rise of telehealth and how effectively healthcare professionals were able to work with their clients remotely by leveraging these telemedicine tools. While it’s unlikely we should expect a radical shift of all of healthcare to…
Why is Gen Z Far More Open About Mental Health Issues?
Mental health is finally becoming a mainstream topic. It’s no longer a secret or a shame to have struggles. This openness is far more prevalent in Gen Z. According to the Stress in America Report, Gen Z is most likely to report mental health issues and seek treatment for them. Younger people have also…
What Can You Do to Keep Up with Next-Gen Travelers?
Travel insurance, just like every industry across the globe, is evolving in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. As travelers look to get back to the skies and the roadways of the world in search of something to sate their pent-up desire for new experiences, a new generation is emerging. This new generation of…
Archiving Retired Systems: Pitfalls to Avoid
There’s a strange give and take happening in healthcare, and it has to do with the technology systems organizations use to store and access patient data and more. While many of these legacy systems are astronomically expensive by today’s standards, making them obsolete and setting up a clear need for transition, many healthcare organizations…
How Trends in Corporate Consolidation Reflect in Biden’s Healthcare Anti-Trust Action
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that addresses competition among hospitals, health insurers, prescription drugmakers, and hearing aid manufacturers in an effort to tackle anti-competitive practices in various industries. The order urges the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on antitrust laws and actively revise merger…
How Retailers Are Leveraging Computer Vision
The pandemic accelerated a lot of things for companies, and one of those is computer vision. While only three percent of companies currently utilize computer vision technology, according to research from RIS’ “29th Annual Retail Technology Study: Retail Accelerates,” 40 percent have plans to implement or finish implementing the technology. Here to give insights…
The Digital Transformation In Radiology
The challenges healthcare executives and administrators face are constantly changing. Host Kevin Stevenson talks with the heroes behind the heroes that are enabling hospitals, urgent care centers and telemedicine operators to spend their time tending to patients, while they handle the logistics. On this episode of I Don’t Care, Host Kevin Stevenson talked with Dr. Moira…
All Things IoT
The IoT ecosystem is accelerating, with innovation moving forward rapidly. It has applications in many industries, and those use cases will be at the forefront of the 2021 Works With Conference hosted by Silicon Labs. On Engineering Experience, host Tyler Kern spoke with Keith Nesrsta, Regional Sales Manager at Silicon Labs, and Paragon Innovations…
FDA Approves Neurotech Company for Testing Brain Chip in Humans
Activist Post reports that brain-computer interface, or BCI, represents the latest frontier of artificial intelligence and biology. While this technology is still early in development, a growing number of companies are already looking at its commercial applications. On July 28, one of those companies, New York startup Synchron, received FDA approval to test its…
Answering Challenges in the Use of Immediate Use Steam Sterilization
Healthcare has plenty of potential pain points to go around, but one of the industry’s longest lasting is the proper use of immediate use steam sterilization, or IUSS. The procedure, traditionally known as “flash sterilization,” offers the quickest possible time between an instrument’s use and its ability to be used again. However, that benefit…
Clinical Results Show Germination of the Probiotic DE111
Numerous studies have already proven that Deerland’s probiotic DE111 is beneficial to human gut health, elevating digestive health, regularity, immune health, cardiovascular health, sports performance, body composition, and more. However, a recent study revealed even more exciting news. DE111 does indeed germinate within the human intestine, meaning it can provide benefits from both the…
Sterile Processing Pillars: Readiness, Traceability, and Communication
There’s never been a greater need for hospitals and other healthcare operations to have full visibility into their assets and how they’re being used in operating room settings and beyond. In a healthcare landscape that’s seen most healthcare operations adopt some form of electronic health records (EHR) solution, Censis’s solutions can integrate with those…
Exploring Healthcare Coverage Alternatives
Inaccessibility to low-cost health insurance is a fact of life for many people, as well as employers who want to offer part-time and 1099 workers solutions. Where can people turn to when they want affordable healthcare coverage? Charlie Geiselhart, CRO of Healthcare2U, spoke with Daniel Litwin about how more companies and people are considering…
Hiring Picks Up the Pace Despite Lingering COVID Concerns
Even with parts of the country being hit hard by a wave of the Delta variant of COVID-19, the outlook for the jobs market appears to be on an upward swing. In July, nonfarm payrolls skyrocketed, increasing by more than 940,000 as the unemployment rate dipped to just under 5.5%, according to a recent report…
The Lifecycle of a Container
On this episode of the podcast, host Tyler Kern talked with Kelly Swails, Senior Clinical Educator for Censis Technologies, the industry leader in surgical instrument management systems, offering advanced, web-based software systems. Kern and Swails talked about the lifecycle of a container and the importance of tracking during the process. Today, we’re talking about…
Are Increasing Healthcare Costs Driving Medical Tourism?
The landscape of healthcare and health insurance and payments is getting increasingly volatile. Americans have a lot to navigate and, for some, the rising prices and overall complexity are pushing them to the practice of medical tourism. Americans are flocking to other countries for care, and this medical tourism could have an oversized and…
The Life of a Scope
Sam Harrison, Senior Clinical Educator at Censis Technologies, provided Tyler Kern with an education in endoscopy when he guided him through the lifecycle of a scope and how Censis technologies’ ScopeTrac and CensiTrac play a vital role in the process. Scopes first go through a deamination process before they enter the OR. CensiTrac then…
What Safety Measures Will Guests Expect as Travel Booms this Summer?
On this episode of A Move In The Light Direction, a podcast by Surfacide UV Technology, host Daniel Litwin talked with Wendy Walling, Director of Global Marketing at Intellego Technologies, and Jeff Veenhuis, President and CEO, Surfacide Manufacturing. The trio spoke about trends in summer travels as the U.S. meets new highs in travel demand…
How NCI-Designated Cancer Centers Are Transforming the Future of Care
The challenges healthcare executives and administrators face are constantly changing. Host Kevin Stevenson talks with the heroes behind the heroes that are enabling hospitals, urgent care centers and telemedicine operators to spend their time tending to patients, while they handle the logistics. Cancer treatment has evolved dramatically in the last decade. With new and innovative ways…
Healthcare Innovations from a Patient’s Perspective
Patients, now more than ever, want transparency, agency and access to care. After a global pandemic gave people new perspectives on the level of proactive and reactive care needed to stay healthy and in tune with their healthcare systems, healthcare systems are seeking positive innovations to meet those desires. Kezia Fitzgerald, Chief Innovation Officer and…
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