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The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) was recently awarded a 4-year accreditation of its health care Standards from the International Society for Quality in Health Care’s (ISQua) External Evaluation Association (IEEA) International...

Face masks have been shown to be effective at filtering out viruses such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus, thereby reducing the risk of infection. A team of researchers from MIT now hopes to go one step further and create a mask that inactivates viruses using heat. The...

A lot of personal protective equipment sold on the streets in the U.S. today isn’t safe or even exists. “When dealing with distributors, especially larger PPE orders, make sure you see proof that the product has actually came into the U.S.,” said S3...

This collaborative surgical training platform applies the multiplayer interactivity of cloud gaming to enable surgeons to perform virtual procedures with medical device sales representatives over the same web conferencing platform.

Katena Products, a global provider of precision ophthalmic instruments, biologics, and devices to hospitals, surgical centers, and ophthalmic and optometric offices announces the purchase of Micro-Select Instruments Inc. Micro-Select was founded in 2005 by Lenny Moll...

SteriView Technologies Inc. has launched its Software as a Service (SaaS). The SaaS System has been developed and is administered by its partner Diopsys Inc. The company’s mission is to focus on patient safety by substantially reducing outbreaks of...