Patient Safety

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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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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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How Technology Can Help Your Hospital Reach High Compliance Rates In Endoscope Reprocessing

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Over the last decade, incidences of outbreaks from infections that can be attributed to poorly disinfected endoscopes have been showing up in the news regularly. So much so that regulatory bodies from the US Congress to the FDA have been increasing their scrutiny of these extremely useful, yet sometimes problematic reusable medical instruments. Many different

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Government Continues Probe Into Manufacturers of Contaminated Duodenoscopes

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The US Government is continuing its scrutiny of Olympus and the other major endoscope manufacturers following several reports of infections related to duodenoscopes in recent years. The latest chapter includes a letter written by a US Senator asking for additional information regarding duodenoscope investigations. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) wrote a letter to the three major

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FDA Releases Update On Contamination Risks Of Duodenoscopes

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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released another update regarding its research into the safety and contamination risks associated with the use of duodenoscopes. After receiving further research results, the FDA is reiterating its previous recommendations regarding the proper handling and reprocessing of duodenoscopes that it released in a Safety Communication in

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How To Store And Track Extra Long Scopes

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Extra-long scopes, such as small bowel enteroscopes, can often be a challenge for endoscopy departments to track and manage. Their long bodies do not fit easily in to the standard scope storage cabinets that are typically used to store all scopes. Because of this challenge, most hospitals store their extra-long scopes in standard storage cabinets

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