Ultrasound device manufacturer Civco Medical Solutions has acquired PCI Medical, a producer of ultrasound transducer disinfectant systems based in Deep River, Conn. This acquisition equips Civco with a portfolio of hardware and consumables to meet the need for infection control compliance in the ultrasound transducer reprocessing market.
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In the past, the FDA has occasionally waded into the territory of medical device service, refurbishment, repair, reconditioning, and modification. The FDA’s new foray into this arena comes in the form of an open-ended request for comments titled “Refurbishing, Reconditioning, Rebuilding, Remarketing, Remanufacturing, and Servicing of Medical Devices Performed by Third-party Entities and Original Equipment Manufacturers.”
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Nihon Kohden has released the Aware alarm management software system to help hospitals reduce alarm fatigue and meet The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal for alarm management. The system builds on the company’s ReportKonnect functionality and comes with clinical consulting services to help facilities sustain improvement.
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Efforts are currently underway in at least four states—Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, and New York—to pass right to repair legislation. According to The Repair Association, the most promising avenue for reform seems to be a legislative approach at the state level, with the hope that if one state falls in line, a national agreement will follow.
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The rise of electronic health records has led to increased adoption of time-saving features like copy/paste and copy/forward. A new publicly available toolkit from the Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety examines these common practices and presents four recommendations for their safe use in a healthcare setting. Health IT Safe Practices: Toolkit for the Safe Use of Copy and Paste is the Partnership’ first release in a series of planned evidence-based recommendations designed to improve health IT safety.
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