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CareFusion's MedMined scored highest in overall performance for infection control vendors ranked in a KLAS report
According to the firm, the report examines vendors that provide the most effective infection control and surveillance systems currently available, as well as 10 vendors that are entering the market.
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CareFusion Takes the Public Stage With a Wealth of Experience
By Tom York, San Diego Business Journal
"It's something old, but something new." That's a good way of describing public company CareFusion Corp., a provider of equipment used to reduce infections, manage medications in hospitals while preventing medication errors.
The company has a history, but not on Wall Street. It is not only one of the largest companies by market cap, but one of the newest San Diego-based companies trading on Wall Street.
"We're a global medical technology company, and the products that we make are very important to hospitals worldwide," said Jim Mazzola, senior vice president for corporate marketing and communications. "We make products designed to help improve the safety of patients at lower cost, which are two really important things in health care right now. Hospitals are under increasing pressure to improve the outcomes while reducing the costs. And the products we make are designed to do just that."
WLSA Summit: Making mHealth a Reality
By Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week
Mike Martino, senior vice president of innovation and strategy at CareFusion, and a member of the Wireless Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA), discusses that new wireless healthcare solutions must be effective for both patients and providers.
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Video: CareFusion Q3 Beat the Street
CNBC Squawk on the Street
Kieran Gallahue, CareFusion’s chairman and CEO, recently spoke about the company’s third-quarter earnings and four areas of focus – medication management, infection prevention, OR/procedural areas and respiratory care – on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street.
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CareFusion Quarterly Profit Beats Street
By Deena Beasley, Reuters
Medical device maker CareFusion Corp (CFN) posted better-than-expected third-quarter earnings, citing expanding profit margins, and reaffirmed its revenue forecast for fiscal 2011.
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Going From Blue to Green
Published in Surgical Products Magazine
By converting blue wrap to sterilization containers, how one sterile processing manager achieved cost-savings and green initiatives for her facility.
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Prevention success fueled by determination
by Susan Cantrell, ELS
It’s been said that if you tell someone what they are long enough that eventually the person will begin to believe it and act in kind. That sort of self-fulfilling prophecy is happening in infection prevention.
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Going Green: Helping Hospitals be Friendlier to the Environment
Recent Earth Day celebrations offer a terrific opportunity to see what pharmacists can do to improve the water we all drink.
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CareFusion acquires technology for automatic pharma waste sorting
by Olga Deshchenko, DOTmed News Reporter
Medical technology giant CareFusion said Wednesday it completed the acquisition of Vestara, a developer of pharmaceutical waste management solutions...
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Meaningful use is a noun, not a verb
The meaning behind meaningful use is achieving sustainable improvements in healthcare quality to help deliver the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) vision of better patient care at a lower cost.
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Interoperability and Actionable Intelligence: Future Requirements, Current Possibilities
by Kevin Ketzel and David Swenson, RPh of CareFusion
Government requirements for “meaningful use”of electronic health records (EHRs) have focused national attention on the need to integrate and computerize a patient’s medical records to improve performance and support patient care processes.
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Pyxis® Advisor from CareFusion
by Carol Donaldson, RN, nursing systems coordinator at Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama.
Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama is a 499-bed facility dedicated to persistent patient safety initiatives and eager to develop innovative programs that improve patient care.
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