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Articles in Sept, 2003 issue of Healthcare Purchasing News

• Kodak and Siemens sign global sales deal
• MedAssets acquisition to expand its offering in revenue cycle management
  by Curt Werner
• The real cost of toxic chemicals in healthcare
  by Larry Weiss
• Web-based purchasing data
• New Redi-Tag dispenser
• Chris Pancratz, former HIDA exec, dead at 52
• Consorta succeeds with wound closure deals
• Study shows benefits of repeating sigmoidoscopy
• R2 Technology, Stanford begin research collaboration
• Handwashing education
• On reprocessing
  by Peter Briggs
• Tenet to pay $54 million in fraud case
• Materials departments scratching surface of wireless potential
  by John Hall
• Care for patients with probable SARS
• NY hospital uses processs, product, education to cut bloodstream infections
• Non-adhesive pulse oximetry sensors
• Fast stats
• Premier packs care into kit deals
• Study says AEDs work with infants and children
• More docs saying 'cool it'
• Cleaner/disinfectant fights SARS
• A conversation with a safety expert on staff protection
• Quorum to gas up at Praxair pump
• How centralizing purchasing and AP can yield significant benefits
  by Matt Mayer
• HPN pay poll: infection control professionals earn 4.9% salary increase
  by Curt Werner
• Disinfecting and sanitizing wipers
• Needle safety device
• A fine summer spoiled
  by Curt Werner
• Survey of overseas hospitals finds similarities, contrasts
• Med-surg distributors quietly do their part in supply chain
  by Curt Werner
• Bar coding drugs and med-surg supplies can enhance patient safety
  by Agatha L. Nolen
• Medication cart
• Worth repeating
• CEOs worry about money
• California nursing ratios approved
• Sentinel Event from JCAHO: preventing surgical fires
• Carts roll, storage rocks, on evolutionary scale
  by John Andrews
• Sulfite-free injections
• STERRAD rebuttal
  by Martin S. Favero
• Baylor to operate with Encision
• B. Braun, Venetec morph needlestick system
• OR apparel makers weave comfort, value into innovative products
  by Julie Williamson
• New technology for detecting breast cancer
• Antimicrobial alcohol-based hand wipe
• Information please
  by Jamie C. Kowalski
• GAO: many hospitals unready for bioterrorism
• Senate asks for quicker GPO reform
  by Curt Werner
• Keeping sterile processing in-house
• Smoke tube kit
• Carpet care system
• MEDICA readies huge exhibition
• Premier says hospitals save $23 million via collaboration
• Standardizing central service and infection control work
  by Lu Ann Sorrell
• New exam glove packaging
• Super-cold freezer