In my blog What you need to know about Surgical Instrument Direct Part Marking (DPM), I wrote about the benefits of surgical instrument marking. I also touched on some lesser known but important aspects that need to be considered.
The ability to quickly retrieve and return of instruments is one of the important benefits that a surgical insrument tracking solution can provide.
If you are considering an instrument tracking solution, then the tips in this blog will hopefully make your life easier down the track.
Introduction
Just about everyone these days wants their surgical instruments etched with 2D data matrix barcodes. There are plenty of benefits to be gained from doing so.
It speeds up the instrument assembly process and reduces the need for your people to memorise instrument names. The assembly process becomes very simple. Team members scan a barcode on an instrument and the computer tells them if it’s the right one or not and when the tray is complete.
The new version of AS/NZS 4187 released on the 15th December last year brought some very significant changes to the previous standard. One of the most significant changes is the standards reference to Product Families.
In a previous blog, I provided an overview of ISO/TS 17665-3:2013 - Sterilization of health care products - Moist heat - Part 3: Guidance on the designation of a medical device to a product family and processing category for steam sterilization.
Today I will get into the specifics of how to apply the standard to a Cataract Tray. Let's take a look at how to do that.
If you’re a member of the Dental Health community you’re probably aware that a lot has happened in the last 12 months. I am referring to infection control breaches that have happened
in New South Wales. Around the same time two documents were released that have the express purpose of preventing such issues.
They are:
Infection Control has become a hot topic and the Australian Dental Board's release of an open letter dated 16th July 2015 reminding Dental Practitioners of their Infection control obligations under the National Law is testament to that.
With this blog, I will try to provide some guidance through the maze of standards and guidelines and provide dental practitioners with a list of relevant documentation for further reading.
Healthcare associated infection can be one of the biggest challenges faced by a health care facility.
If you are considering a digital patient records system, it may well be worth looking to see that the system is AS2828 compliant.
Why, you ask? After all AS2828 is about paper medical records right?
Well...not exactly.
EMR, EHR, PCEHR, eHealth – what’s it all mean?
When it comes to naming computerised medical record solutions, the common approach, is to give them an acronym, or at the very least get the letter ‘e’ in there somewhere. The result is confusion.
I am frequently in conversations with people who randomly interchange EMR with EHR, eHealth with PCEHR and Paperless Medical Records with Digital Documents. And who can blame them? It’s ambiguous and a conversation like that generally results in a headache.
In this post I hope to shed more light on what the terms all mean and bring it back to plain language.
Thinking about going paperless in your medical practice? One of the first big decisions you will be confronted with is whether to choose a web-based solution or a desktop application installed locally on your desktop computer.
On the 15th December last year, a new version of AS/NZS 4187 was released. The standard is complex and there is so much to understand. There are many requirements. So what can you do to ensure your ophthalmic centre is compliant?