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our sterile processing department might be buried in the
dark and dank sub-basement, but it soon might get a high-
tech makeover that will make it look more like Silicon
Valley than a back alley. Some of the advances we'll high-
light are still a twinkle in some engineer's eye, but others
have already been unveiled in select reprocessing rooms around the
globe. Here's a look at what's coming.
Weston "Hank" Balch, BS, MDiv, CRCST, CIS, CHL | San Antonio, Texas
• VROOM! Exciting technological advances could make your instrument reprocessing area look more like an episode of the
Jetsons than a rerun of M.A.S.H.
Rev Up Your Reprocessing Room
8 exciting high-tech advances on the
horizon for your facility's instrument hub.
Mark
Voight,
St.
Cloud
(Minn.)
Hospital.
