News and Notes

Advanced Cooling Therapy’s first product, the Esophageal Cooling Device (ECD), is showing benefits in the conduction of heat for warming of patients in a controlled manner in new clinical settings. A site in the European Union has used the ECD to keep challenging...

Excel Medical has announced that Inova Health System has implemented Excel Medical’s BedMasterEx solution to integrate with Inova’s Epic EHR to optimize cardiac monitoring and improve patient safety across the health system. This is part of an ongoing rollout of the...

According to 2014 data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), more than 2,000 of 16,000 long-term care facilities across the U.S. were cited for failure to properly treat a resident to prevent new bedsores or heal existing ones. If such issues are...

Black Diamond Video has been awarded certification by a leading electronic health record provider, certifying that Black Diamond Video’s BDV Clarity solution is fully capable of integrating BDV OR video system data with the EHR provider’s electronic health record...

Halyard Health crowned the champion of the second annual Smart-Fold Wrap Race at the 2015 International Association of Healthcare Central Service Material Management (IAHCSMM) 50th Annual Conference and Expo in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Darreona McDowell from...

MyRounding and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) have created a partnership to create “myAORNguidelines,” a new product that will enable operating room managers and administrators to analyze and sustain compliance with AORN’s evidence-based...