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Posts about Innovations:
Over the past few posts, we have been looking at how ideas make their way to hospital decision-makers. Nurses play a crucial role in patient care,...
3 min read.
Who Makes Decisions about Infection Prevention in a Private (Non-Government Owned) Hospital?
Hospitals are the setting for countless decisions each day, decisions that impact patient outcomes, financial investments, community health and so...
Hospitals,
Product Evaluation,
HAIs,
Policy,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Costs,
Construction,
Innovations,
Career,
Evidence-Based Design
2 min read.
How To Make the Case for a Healthcare Innovation
Every successful organization, from a small grassroots group to a global corporation, has a way for ideas to percolate through the system and find...
Hospitals,
Product Evaluation,
Policy,
Interventions,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Costs,
Construction,
Innovations,
Evidence-Based Design
2 min read.
How Do Hospitals Spend Money? An Introduction
Hospital finances are a complex process, involving all the parts of a service provider, a retail business, an investment venture, and a non-profit...
Infection Control,
Hospitals,
Product Evaluation,
Consumer,
Patient Safety,
Medicare/Medicaid,
Design,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Costs,
Architecture,
Construction,
Innovations
2 min read.
How Can a Healthcare Investment Increase Market Share AND Reduce Cost of Care? Focus on Infection Prevention.
Large-scale healthcare projects, from new projects to renovations, face a challenging future. After the tedious process of securing permits and...
Infection Control,
Hospitals,
Product Evaluation,
Consumer,
HAIs,
Patient Safety,
Costs,
Innovations
3 min read.
Infection Control and the Healthcare Supply Chain: Who Makes Decisions?
Last week we provided a big-picture overview of the healthcare supply chain, from supplier to patient. This week, we will dig deeper into this...
4 min read.
Adopting a Standard of Care: Says Who?
In our last post, we explored how adopting a new product can result in some heavy lifting. Not only does product adoption require financial...
3 min read.
New Product Adoption: Are You Ahead of the Curve? (And What To Do if Not Everyone Else Is)
The release of any new phone model reveals much about where people fall on the product adoption curve. There are the...
3 min read.
The First Peoples: First In Modern Medicine
One of the most universally-recognized impacts from the colonization of North and South America is the horrific de-population of indigenous peoples...
Last week concluded our series on what the world will look like post-COVID. In our first post, we covered changes made during the pandemic that we...
Bacteria,
Science,
Infection Control,
Copper,
HAIs,
Cleaning Protocols,
Antibiotic Resistance,
Patient Safety,
Infographics,
Antimicrobials,
Design,
Microbiology,
Interventions,
Architecture,
Disinfectants,
Innovations,
Evidence-Based Design
3 min read.
Just how does copper kill germs?
COVID-19 and other infectious pathogens continue to make headlines, drawing our attention to the technologies being developed to fight these germs....