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Posts about Product Evaluation (2):
Product Evaluation,
Copper,
Consumer,
Health & Wellness,
Patient Safety,
Regulation,
Globa Health,
Disinfectants,
International
2 min read.
Canada's PMRA and the United States' EPA Registrations: A Comparison
Almost every country has a government agency responsible for the health and safety of its citizens and its environment. Where those two departments...
Patient Advocacy,
Product Evaluation,
Research,
Consumer,
Health & Wellness,
Epidemiology,
Policy,
Interventions,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Equity
3 min read.
What are QALYs and DALYs?
How do you put an economic value on a human life? Why would you ever want to? As difficult as this quantification may be, it is a necessary practice...
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...
2 min read.
"COVID Innovations": Which are Still Standing?
Remember back in 2020, when the COVID pandemic was still new, and we were all getting used to lockdowns, social distancing, and masks? Many of us...
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...
Infection Control,
Product Evaluation,
Cleaning Protocols,
Antimicrobials,
Interventions,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Construction
3 min read.
Biocidal > Antimicrobial
We have often discussed the different terms used to describe products that clean the patient environment in this blog. Using the correct terms, and...
You go to a professional conference and learn about an exciting new medical innovation. You think it might work at your facility, so you go ahead and...
The National Institutes of Health is the largest public funder of biomedical research around the globe. This support has led to life-saving...
What happens after laboratory tests confirm that an environmental product kills bacteria? Is that the end of the line for testing a product's...