Physical health amid a pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has likely brought many changes to how you live your life, and with it uncertainty, altered daily routines, financial pressures and social isolation, wrote Dana Sparks for Mayo Clinic’s health blog. “You may worry about getting sick, how long the pandemic will last and what the future will bring. Information overload, … [Read more...]
Opioids
Understanding the opioid epidemic, and how the CDC, states, communities and healthcare providers are working to combat it. What are opioids? According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, opioids are a class of drugs naturally found in the opium poppy plant and that work in the brain to produce a variety of effects, including the relief of pain with many of these drugs. Opioids can … [Read more...]
Frontline Infection Control
Could a healthcare provider’s antiseptic solution itself be a possible source of contamination? Skin antiseptic products are used to reduce bacterial burden on skin prior to performing invasive medical procedures, such as injections or surgical incisions. In this role, skin antiseptics, including alcohol, iodine, and chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG), are part of the frontline … [Read more...]
Reducing Airborne Transmission
Why UV air filtration units are critical to patient – and caregiver – safety, and how to broach the topic with customers Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, conversations on how to reduce airborne transmission of pathogen have come front and center. UV air filtration units are one solution distributor reps can discuss with their customers. In the following Q&A, Alan Kivia, … [Read more...]
The Value of Ride Days
Why ride days matter, and how to get the most out of them The choices for products and services available in today’s physician offices are almost endless. The same goes for distributor reps calling on these accounts. Between traditional selling and automation, distributor reps represent hundreds of thousands of products, combined with an almost 24/7 demand for answers and … [Read more...]
Outbreak Response
Preparedness is key for hospitals and health systems when responding to an infectious disease outbreak. The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is not the first, nor will it be the last, infectious disease outbreak to make global headlines. “There have been a number of outbreaks that have taught us that routine healthcare infection prevention is not enough when dealing with a … [Read more...]
Identifying Gaps
ECRI Institute’s consulting helps providers respond to a multitude of issues related to infection control and prevention On any given day in the United States, about 1 in 25 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI), according to estimates. Indeed, there are quite a few areas that create vulnerabilities for infections at hospitals and health … [Read more...]
Reducing the Risk
For the foreseeable future, infection prevention will be front and center in conversations with customers. In the following article, Repertoire Magazine reached out to manufacturers for insights on how COVID-19 was affecting their work with distributors and physician offices, as well as their advice on effective infection prevention protocols, and how the COVID-19 pandemic … [Read more...]
COVID-19 and Post-Acute Care
Limited personal protective equipment for long-term care providers poses a major risk to vulnerable patient-base While hospitals were at the center of the initial wave of supply needs for the U.S. healthcare system, survey results released mid-April by Premier Inc. indicated that the U.S. supply chain was facing a second wave, and second front, in combatting … [Read more...]
Taking Care of Accounts
What distributor reps did during social distancing in their territories In a recent podcast, Dail-eNews editor Daniel Beaird and Scott Adams, publisher of Repertoire magazine discussed the challenges for distribution reps under the nationwide social distancing measures in place, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way distribution reps approach their … [Read more...]