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ECRI Study Highlights Complex Tradeoffs in Single-Use vs. Reusable Medical Devices

WILLOW GROVE, PA — A new research initiative from ECRI, a leading nonprofit focused on healthcare safety, sheds light on the nuanced decision-making healthcare providers face when choosing between ...
Medical Xpress

Preventing infections through effective sterilization and high-level disinfection of reusable medical devices

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with eight partner organizations, has released new comprehensive guidance to help health care facilities prevent the ...
Medical Design & Outsourcing

FDA’s new guidance on consumer wearables makes the medtech market more complex

Instead of making life easier for medical device companies, the FDA’s new wearables guidance makes the market more complex.
EurekAlert!

Multiorganizational guidance offers updated recommendations to prevent infections through effective sterilization and high-level disinfection of reusable medical devices

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with eight partner organizations, has released new comprehensive guidance to help healthcare facilities prevent the ...
Becker's ASC

New FDA Guidance Aims to Reduce Infections From Endoscopes

The FDA has released a draft guidance on properly cleaning and labeling reprocessed endoscopes to reduce the number of infections. The new guidance is needed because endoscopes now involve “more ...