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Articles in May, 2004 issue of Healthcare Purchasing News

• Task force hears drugmakers' warnings about counterfeit dangers, drug imports
• Unfinished business: McFaul returns to consulting with a little twist
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Cleaning and care procedures for sterilizers; moving SPD under the OR; mixed load sterilizing
  by Ray Taurasi
• Medex
• Temperature viewer
• Tracheostomy tubes
• JNJ distribution model
  by Bill McFaul
• AHRMM accepting nominations for the 2004 Leadership Award
• Stryker
• Huntleigh Healthcare
• Needle infusion set
• Odor and stain remover
• Making sense of the MMIS and ERP debate
  by Ed Lane
• HDMA releases barcode report with recommended drug bar coding priority list
• Minimally invasive stroke treatment
• Grant program seeks to boost CS tech recruitment
• Ohio patient safety group issues surgical protocol based on JCAHO input
• Transport medium
• Flat-screen television
• 'Linen' vis-a-vis textiles
  by Nathan L. Belkin
• You gotta hand it to these gamblers?
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Report shows vendors ready to implement hospital bedside scanning
• Survey says doctors face needlestick risk
• Welch Allyn
• Cleanroom wipers
• Pediatric warming blanket
• The role of clinical products coordinator in NLCR: material use evaluation can save money
  by Jim Smoker
• DOL awards $5.4 million in nurse training grants
• CS outsourcing: what it entails, when it makes sense
  by Julie E. Williamson
• Should you microfiber?
  by David Polonsky
• Web-based resource for managing bariatric patients
• Magnetic dry erase notes
• Post-surgical undergarment
• Handwashing clarification
  by Dan Manley
• Standardized health info exchange could save $87 billion annually
• New antimicrobial technology for use against hospital pathogens
• Oelwein Industries
• Ergonomic cart mover
• Medical equipment cleaner
• Making the best case for medical equipment
  by Ed Sullivan
• San Antonio hospitals nose E.R. surgeons due to unpaid procedures
• Advisers recommend FDA approval of 'temporary' artificial heart
• Medi-Flex
• Momentum building toward needle-free world: the role of needleless systems does have boundaries
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Handheld capnograph/pulse oximeter
• Reusable SpO2 sensors
• Catheter securement devices vs cost
  by Gregg Ruhren
• Medicare predicted to be bankrupt by 2019
• Surgical lights, tables and workstations: OR staples steal the show
  by Jeannie Akridge
• Skytron
• Minor adjustments generate major results
  by Victor Celiberti
• Ankle brace
• Diabetic insole shoe
• ROI with catheter securement devices
  by Steve Bierman
• Fast stats
• Are you gambling with your MMIS capabilities?
  by Rick Dana Barlow
• Vendors, materials managers, and critical-care nurses: communication is the key
  by Susan Cantrell
• Armstrong Medical Industries, Inc
• Pill crusher
• Syringe pump
• Rising to the challenge
  by Liz Veazey
• FBI raids three CA clinics in alleged $300m healthcare scan
• Skytron
• 3M Sterilization
• Disposable razor
• Protective glasses
• Worth repeating
• As a clarification to the March 2004 article, "Surgical Instruments: From bones and stones to stainless steel and high technology", HPN would like to thank Anne Reed, vice president, co-owner of Mobile Instrument Service & Repair