Hospital Disinfection News
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Control Design Q&A: Workplace robotics enhance remote connectivity
Tell us about your company’s state-of-the-art robotics technology? RK: Ava Robotics brings a deep technical heritage, established at iRobot, to define and enable new opportunities for intelligent robots in the workplace. With this technology, its telepresence, UV disinfection and security robots work to improve productivity, safety and quality of life for workers and businesses across ...
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UVD Robots Joins Ecolab to Fight Hospital Acquired Infections
As new coronavirus variants continue to mutate and spread, the growth in demand for infection prevention solutions using UV-C light is projected to reach $18.94 billion by 2030, witnessing an annual growth rate of 59.7% from 2021 to 2030. Further fueling the demand is the rise in hospital acquired infections (HAIs) that globally cause more fatalities due to the increase in antibiotic resistance ...
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UVD Robots Joins Ecolab to Fight Hospital Acquired Infections
As new coronavirus variants continue to mutate and spread, the growth in demand for infection prevention solutions using UV-C light is projected to reach $18.94 billion by 2030, witnessing an annual growth rate of 59.7% from 2021 to 2030. Further fueling the demand is the rise in hospital acquired infections (HAIs) that globally cause more fatalities due to the increase in antibiotic resistance ...
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Injection of capital to accelerate global expansion
In a world with increasing labor shortages and a growing ageing population, demand for service robots that can assist companies and institutions is growing. This is why Blue Ocean Robotics, Europe’s largest manufacturer of service robots, has now strengthened its financial muscle, enabling the company to roll out its sustainable mobile robot solutions all over the world. Service robots are ...
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UVD Robots Deploys Robot #200 donated by The European Commission to European hospitals
This week, Consorci Corporació Sanitari Parc Taulí hospital in Barcelona, Spain received the UVD Robot no. 200 donated via the European Commission’s Emergency Support Instruments. In the last couple of years, the corona virus has caused a huge impact all across Europe. UVD Robots and Blue Ocean Robotics - the manufacturer of the autonomous disinfecting robot equipped with ...
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UVD Robots Deploys Robot #200 donated by The European Commission to European hospitals
In the last couple of years, the corona virus has caused a huge impact all across Europe. UVD Robots and Blue Ocean Robotics - the manufacturer of the autonomous disinfecting robot equipped with UV-C light - was selected by the European Commission, as a supplier for its autonomous disinfection robots to European Union hospitals in the fight against SARS-CoV-2 known as Coronavirus. Each year ...
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UVD Robots Deploys the #100 Robot Ordered by EU in Hospitals Across Europe
Bagdasar-Arsenie Hospital in Romania has received UVD Robot number 100 of the total of 200 fully autonomous disinfection robots the European Commission have purchased to its member states. As the second wave of Coronavirus cases surged across Europe in the fall of 2020, UVD Robots and Blue Ocean Robotics - the manufacturer of the autonomous disinfecting robot equipped with UV-C light - was ...
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UVD Robots Selected by Global Facility Management Company ISS
Today, Blue Ocean Robotics the manufacturer of UVD Robots for autonomous UV-C disinfection announced that it was selected by ISS World Services, one of the world’s leading global workplace experience and facility management companies, to provide autonomous robots for disinfection as part of ISS’ global offering. The agreement allows ISS to offer hospital-grade disinfection to its ...
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New Mini UVC Disinfection Robot Scales Up The Fight Against Viruses
The new mini™ UVC disinfection robot, jointly developed by BlueBotics and Engmotion, is a robust, industry-proven solution that disinfects as programmed every time. Based on proven mobile robot and UVC lamp technologies the mini™ UVC, jointly developed by BlueBotics and Engmotion, can be used alone or in a connected fleet to autonomously disinfect hospitals and other public buildings ...
By BlueBotics
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EPA Issues Stop Sale, Use, or Removal Orders to Amazon and eBay for Unregistered and Misbranded Pesticides and Devices, Including Products with Claims Related to COVID-19
On June 11, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in a press release that it issued stop sale, use, or removal orders (SSURO) to Amazon.com Services LLC (Amazon) and eBay, Inc. (eBay) for selling certain pesticide products that EPA claims are unregistered, misbranded, or restricted-use pesticides, and pesticide devices that EPA asserts make false or misleading claims. ...
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ONSLAUGHT Disinfectant from Bad Axe Restoration Products Approved for Use in Fight against the SARS-CoV-2 Virus
With over 800,000 people across the globe, including approximately 170,000 residents of the United States, known to be infected with the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the pandemic has tragically already resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people. It has also cost untold trillions of dollars to world economies as schools, universities, transportation services, businesses and ...
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Microbial Migration in a Clinical Setting
If someone is admitted to hospital with an infectious disease there is always a risk that disease can spread. MRSA and viruses like it can, if left unchecked, infect entire hospital wards at an alarming rate leaving those recovering from other conditions or operations weak and vulnerable. Because hospitals can’t ever be closed environments, controlling the flow of potentially harmful ...
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CDC Issues New Guidance For Use of EPA-Registered Disifectants in Environmental Control of Candida auris for U.S. Healthcare Facilities
On February 17, 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidance revising its recommendation regarding controlling Candida auris (C. auris) infections in U.S. healthcare facilities. The CDC guidance now recommends a “thorough daily and terminal cleaning and disinfection” of patient rooms in which ...
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EPA Takes Action To Bring Suffolk County Company into Compliance with Pesticides Regulations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with Air Techniques, Inc. of Melville, New York, to settle violations of federal law governing pesticides. The company, which sell wholesale cleaners and a surface disinfectant that are used to clean instruments, equipment and surfaces in dental offices and medical facilities, sold unregistered pesticides and imported pesticides ...
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UVDI & Clorox Healthcare Announce Partnership for Comprehensive Approach to Environmental Disinfection
UltraViolet Devices, Inc. (UVDI) and Clorox Healthcare share a deep commitment to public health and a mission to help protect patients and reduce illnesses caused by healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). This month, the two companies entered a partnership designed to deliver an even more comprehensive surface disinfection solution. Known for their innovative line of disinfectants, Clorox ...
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Medical Center Health System Selects UVDI’s UV Surface Disinfection Technology
Founded over 60 years ago, Medical Center Health System has grown from one facility into a family of healthcare providers delivering a broad range of advanced medical services to the people of Odessa, Texas and the surrounding 17 counties of the Permian Basin. Medical Center Hospital (MCH), a 402-bed regional medical center, currently serves over 100,000 patients each year. Recently, Medical ...
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Medical Center Health System Selects UVDI’s UV Surface Disinfection Technology
Founded over 60 years ago, Medical Center Health System has grown from one facility into a family of healthcare providers delivering a broad range of advanced medical services to the people of Odessa, Texas and the surrounding 17 counties of the Permian Basin. Medical Center Hospital (MCH), a 402-bed regional medical center, currently serves over 100,000 patients each year. Recently, Medical ...
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CMS Close to Beginning Hospital Infection Control Inspections
According to recent reports, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are currently finalizing their hospital control survey. Once complete, the CMS is expected to conduct hospital infection control inspections in the near future. Some in the industry see these actions as a likely prelude to forthcoming regulations meant to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). ...
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CDC Reports that CRE are a Nightmare Bacteria in Healthcare Environments
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, also known as CRE, are a family of germs that are difficult to treat because they have high levels of resistance to antibiotics. According to new figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 4% of acute care hospitals and 18% of long-term acute care hospitals in the United States reported at least one case of CRE ...
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Presbyterian Hospital Unveils New Technology from UVDI to Disinfect Rooms and Prevent Infections
Presbyterian Hospital is the largest acute care center in New Mexico and the first in Albuquerque to deploy the V-360° Room Sanitizer. The V-360° Room Sanitizer generates high intensity UV energy and quickly disinfects surfaces contaminated with viruses, bacteria and fungal spores, including superbugs that cause illness and infection. In their ongoing mission to provide the best ...
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