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Top healthcare printing solutions and why you need them
Effective care depends on smooth and efficient processes, and robust, reliable and secure communication and information sharing is mission-critical. [ + ]
Reducing infections from contaminated needleless connectors
Needleless connectors (NC). They're used a thousand times a day in healthcare facilities worldwide where these small devices can have a big impact. [ + ]
My Health Record — improving health outcomes for all Australians
Harnessing the power of the information revolution is one of the first priorities for governments seeking to improve the safety and efficiency of healthcare. [ + ]
Oracle's Unified Cloud Platform Promises to Shorten Clinical Trials
Oracle's Clinical One Platform will enable pharmaceutical companies to manage every trial function — from randomising patient participants and collecting and analysing data to tracking budgets and ensuring trial safety — from a single user interface. [ + ]
Strategic planning and removing IT sprawl: the first steps in healthcare's digital journey
Healthcare organisations around the globe are in various stages of digital transformation, but many are implementing systems randomly, which has led to IT sprawl. [ + ]
InterSystems recognised by KLAS as A-list vendor
InterSystems has been named by KLAS Research as an 'A-list' vendor within KLAS's newly released report, Decision Insights 2018. [ + ]
Effective risk management saves more than money — it saves lives
Risk management should be approached from a customer-centric perspective, rather than through the narrow lens of litigation prevention, particularly in the health industry where the consequences of error can be deadly. [ + ]
Winning strategies for waiting rooms
Herman Miller has begun studying the ways people wait to improve the process for patients, visitors and the professionals who interact with them. [ + ]
Microdial Flowmeter
Working in partnership with neonatologists, BPR Medical has designed a special range of Microdial flowmeters that provide Neonatal ICU and Special Care Baby Units with the precision and control needed to effectively treat premature babies with medical oxygen. [ + ]
Neutralising duff "sporicidal" claims of amine-based disinfectants
Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection is linked to significant morbidity and mortality and represents a leading cause of healthcare associated infection (HCAI). [ + ]
How many more Australian healthcare workers have to sustain a needlestick injury before safety engineered devices become routine?
A decade has now passed since the annual number of needlestick injuries (NSIs) among Australian healthcare workers (HCWs) was identified as more than 18,500 per year. [ + ]
How genomics can lead doctors to 'knowing ahead of time'
A relative handful of patient success stories show the promise of genomic medicine in treating previously confounding health disorders, but the big challenge now is to expand that patient universe from hundreds of people to hundreds of millions. [ + ]
C. diff spore disinfection: balancing efficacy with safety
Chlorine bleach has long been the standard chemical for Clostridium difficile disinfection. [ + ]
Are you aware you can meet the AS/NZS4187:2014 standard with an undercounter washer-disinfector?
AS/NZS4187:2014 requires individual Health Service Organisations to develop their own work place procedures to ensure their reprocessing activities result in safe reusable medical devices that are not hazardous to either staff or the environment. [ + ]
Honing healthcare with data analysis
What does the eyesight of a homeless person have in common with complications from dental anaesthesia? Or with reducing side-effects from cancer? Or monitoring artificial hip implants? [ + ]
