Behind laboratory doors nationwide, groundbreaking genetic analyses and unprecedented technological advancements are changing healthcare as we know it. Genomic sequencing can enable scientists to stratify cancer, characterize genetic diseases and dev…
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) has become ubiquitous in 2020 but, until now, it has rarely featured in the recall data tables. In 2019, it was subject to 24 notifications, while the figure was 19 in 2018 and 39 in 2017. However, as of 11 Sept…
As we closed Week 19 of 2020, the European Commission published its data tables on recall alerts from across the continent. Unsurprisingly PPE equipment - namely face masks - were among the products deemed defective, but there were also 13 separate n…
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented, global demand for personal protective equipment (PPE), with several countries placing export bans on the sale of PPE and costs increasing by up to 1000%. In the past month, alerts for PPE pla…
I write this reflecting on the flurry of news around recent Ebola activity. There isn’t one of us in the healthcare risk management profession who wants our organization to be the subject of unfavorable news headlines, and it’s important to take le…