News and Notes

Effective January 1, 2021, The Joint Commission is revising Environment of Care (EC) Standard EC.02.04.03, EP 34 for ambulatory health care organizations, critical access hospitals, and office-based surgery practices providing fluoroscopy services. After hearing from...

New analysis of Medicare payment data shows that ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) reduced Medicare costs by $28.7 billion from 2011 through 2018 by providing services to beneficiaries that otherwise would have been provided in higher-cost hospital outpatient...

PURPLESUN Inc. is a technology company on a mission to transform health care and provide a sustainable impact for the healthiest environments. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, there is light. PurpleSun designs and manufactures hospital grade mechatronic systems that are user...

An analysis by the nation’s largest patient safety organization shows that up to 70 percent of KN95 masks tested do not meet U.S. standards for effectiveness, raising the risk of contracting COVID-19 for care providers and patients at hospitals and other health care...

Semtech Corporation recently announced that JAM-Labs has integrated Semtech’s BlueRiver technology into its new line of Software Defined Video over Ethernet (SDVoE)-enabled integrated operating room (OR) products. The products, based on the BlueRiver AVP ASIC, enable...

PENTAX Medical recently announced a distribution agreement with Mobile Aspects for its iRIScope software and iRIScope cabinets product line. Under the terms of the agreement, PENTAX Medical will serve as a United States sales agent of iRIScope software and iRIScope...