Pennywise and Pound Foolish
When budgets are tight, people sometimes look for quick fixes to save on immediate costs. Unfortunately, they will end up being sorry if what looks like a less expensive product costs more in the long run...
The Sky Is Falling…With No One To Fact Check It
We all know the bedtime story about Chicken Little, who was hit on the head with an acorn and went on to create a panic thinking that the sky was falling...
Make a List and Check it Twice: It’s time to plan for 2025
If you look at a calendar and think, “Aw, it’s not even New Years Eve yet. I’ve got plenty of time to plan for 2025” you’re not alone. Even during the busiest shopping time of the year, most people say that products being out of stock is their number one stress factor; 45% said it was their top anxiety-inducing problem...
Laser Etched Instruments are Getting Cited by The Joint Commission
There are instrument tracking programs that require laser etching on site for surgical instruments already manufactured. Case Medical took a different approach by tracking the instrument set and critical devices and now offering digital visualization...
Environmental sustainability is about ecological balance
Having necessary medical devices, supplies and equipment are critical for hospitals and clinics to continue delivering high quality care to patients. The healthcare community relies on foreign companies, especially China, for medical equipment and supplies, even raw materials and spare parts to replenish our factories manufacturing products including medical devices right here in the USA...
The 2025 Tariffs: What It Means for Us
Having necessary medical devices, supplies and equipment are critical for hospitals and clinics to continue delivering high quality care to patients. The healthcare community relies on foreign companies, especially China, for medical equipment and supplies, even raw materials and spare parts to replenish our factories manufacturing products including medical devices right here in the USA...
The Dirty Truth About Endoscope Processing and What We Can Do To Fix It
There are 54 billion bacterial cells on a single cubic centimeter of the average kitchen sponge. They are breeding grounds for all types of germs and bacteria. A common sponge’s spatial partitioning – the way it’s divided into different sectors of various sizes with a porous absorbent surface – caters to bacteria that prefer isolated environments and those that prefer to be around other organisms as well, making it the best of both worlds for microbial communities...
Case Medical to the Rescue: Solutions to Address Planned Obsolescence
Over the past month or two, we’ve learned that several facilities and health care systems have standardized on using germicides, environmental wipes, that EPA consider pesticides for cleaning our containers and other medical devices. Most of these disinfectant wipes are carriers for highly caustic solutions with pH >11 or composed of quaternary compounds considered hazardous to human health. And they are not rinsed off!...
Digital Recognition: A method to reduce errors
I spent this past weekend watching a Netflix serial about the Innocence Project. A dedicated team of investigators and lawyers work to exonerate individuals who have been wrongly convicted, through the use of DNA testing. Did you know that people have blind spots? Of course we do. What is meaningful to one person can be disturbing to another...
Always In Front of the Curve With Innovation
The news cycle has been dominated by headlines that are talking about AI and it’s potential to reshape the way we live and work. What many people don’t realize is that we have been developing and using machine learning tools at Case Medical long before it was popularized in the news cycle...
