Jamie Morgan
Articles
Energy Management, Operations Related to Environmental Hygiene, Water Management
2015 Sustainable Operations Survey
Hospitals make fruitful progress toward sustainability as some take great strides and others stick to baby steps.
Operational Excellence
Health systems tackle population health with wellness centers
Is your health system planning to open a health and wellness center to address volume to value care?.
Operations Related to Environmental Hygiene
CDC Prevention Epicenters to focus on health care facility's role in infection control
Six academic medical centers receive $11 million to discover new facility-related methods to reduce health care-associated infections.
Facility Engineering
ASHE's new guidance on operating room HVAC systems
Also this week: HHS launches a new disaster preparedness resource, Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert addresses fall prevention and new resources added to Focus on Compliance website.
Products, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems Products
Solutions
On our radar, lighting and computerized maintenance management systems.
Architecture
Designing healing health care interiors
Does your health facility incorporate design elements inspired by its natural surroundings?.
Health Care Facility Technology Systems, IT and OT Infrastructure
Building for tomorrow's health IT needs
Hospitals need to develop flexible but robust Wi-Fi infrastructures that can handle the growing number of mobile devices and equipment being used in health care today..
Operations Related to Environmental Hygiene, Compliance and Operations
BARDA funds mass decontamination research
Also this week: EPA orders company to stop selling ineffective disinfectant, the Joint Commission eliminates rules office-based surgery practices and the FDA issues a Class 1 recall..
Operational Excellence, Leadership
The benefits and barriers to using BIM
Does your health care facility face barriers in using building information modeling for facility management?.
Compliance and Operations
CDC, FDA call for better assessment of medical device reprocessing
Also this week: study reports decrease of MRSA in hospitals and FDA releases safety communication on reprocessing bronchoscopes..