Value-Based Care

Lowering readmission rates remains a national priority for payers, providers and policymakers seeking to improve healthcare while reducing costs.

Preventing Infection

Four of the top five GI stories from the latter half of this year involved reprocessing or the risk of infection transmission from reusable duodenoscopes.

Public Health

Reprocessed urological endoscopes, emerging technology, and the environmental impact of single-use endoscopes were some of the themes of our most-read stories on Single-Use Endoscopy.

Preventing Infection

The power of single-use bronchoscopes, their role in diagnosing COPD and their new-found role in interventional pulmonology were among the themes of our most-read stories of the past six months.

Patient Safety

A medical device safety experts explains two health risks when disposable endcaps are not properly attached to duodenoscopes.

Emerging Technologies

Thulium lasers achieve a higher stone-free rate compared with holmium lasers after ureteroscopy lithotripsy for renal and ureteral stones, according to the study

Preventing Infection

Manual cleaning of medical devices not only soaks workers at the sink, it also sends potentially contaminated droplets more than seven feet away, showing a need for better controls, new research shows.

Endoscopy Insights Podcast

A recent study found that three of four single-use flexible bronchoscopes that were tested performed better in flexion and extension than reusable competitors. One of the study's authors is Dr. Jonathan Kurman who is our guest on this episode.

Bronchoscopy Procedure

Three of four single-use flexible bronchoscopes recently tested showed better flexion and extension than reusable competitors, according to a study presented last week at the World Congress for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (WCBIP) 2022.