Article by Diversey General Information A novel Coronavirus, (novel meaning a new strain of a virus that has not been previously identified in humans), currently designated 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), was first identified in China. It has caused severe illness and death in China and has spread to several other countries. 2019-nCoV was identified in… [Read More…]
Adapting to Patient-Centered Changes Across Healthcare Sectors
Article by McKesson Adapting to changes in the healthcare industry is about more than meeting regulations. It means constantly making choices that benefit the patients you serve. This is likely the reason you got into healthcare in the first place—whether you’re a drug manufacturer, clinician or pharmacist. Today’s model of value-based care reflects this need… [Read More…]
Boost Business Image With Good Hygiene
Article by Carrie Schuster It’s no secret that global trends such as urbanization and digitization are disrupting the way we live, work, and interact on a daily basis. With 82% of the North American population now living in urban areas, facilities must adapt to the changing lifestyles of employees, tenants, and visitors, who are spending… [Read More…]
Caries Stabilization Materials & Techniques for Patients with Advancing Disease
Article by Nels Ewoldsen DDS, MSD Conservative Dental Solutions Waveland, IN (private practice). Dental caries is a “biofilm-mediated, sugar-driven, multifactorial, dynamic disease resulting in the phasic demineralization and remineralization of dental hard tissues.1 Dental caries affects most people at some point during life.2 A balanced oral environment counters ongoing demineralization cycles with equal or greater remineralization…. [Read More…]
The Whole Community: Disaster Volunteerism
In the last three blogs, Is Your Organization Prepared for a Disaster, Organizational Disaster Resilience: A Team Sport, and Individual Preparedness: An Imperative, we looked at what it takes to prepare our organizations for disasters, how to engage the teams, and how to prepare at the individual level. In this final blog, we will explore… [Read More…]
Individual Preparedness: An Imperative
Unless operating a factory run by robots, every organization’s most valuable resource is people. Nowhere is this truer than in healthcare. And when disaster strikes, the service that healthcare organizations provide to their communities can increase exponentially. In the last two blogs, Is Your Organization Prepared for a Disaster and Organizational Disaster Resilience: A Team… [Read More…]
The Risks of Physician Burnout
Physician burnout affects nearly 50% of physicians in the US based on a recent study by Stanford University. Burnout is a reaction to long-term stress characterized by emotional, mental and physical exhaustion, as well as a loss of purpose in one’s career. This type of stress leads to rising suicide rates among physicians, substance abuse,… [Read More…]
Organizational Disaster Resilience: A Team Sport
In the last blog post, Is Your Organization Prepared for a Disaster, we took a 50,000-foot view of emergency preparedness, emergency management/business continuity programs, and the hazard assessments that drive them all. Each of these serves as critical components in an organization’s overall preparedness for disasters if or when they occur, but in this blog… [Read More…]
What the Physician Shortage Means for Your Bottom Line & How GPO’s Can Help
The physician shortage is real. It is estimated by 2030 that the US population will grow by a whopping 12%, while the amount of physicians is estimated to only grow by 8%. That already sounds like a shortage, but the situation is likely more extreme than that. It’s about demographics. By 2030, it is estimated… [Read More…]
