January 2010
Newsletter: 2010 is our first attempt at a business. please support our efforts to Reduce infectious disease in Healthcare settings
Changing Healthcare with Hand Hygiene awareness and deployable antimicrobials
HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS TAKE ACTION Time to address the issues of infection control from mobile and other electronic devices, lab coats, scrubs, hospital gowns and save 10x on these related costs
Mobile Protection & Hand Hygiene RidRx is dedicated to improving patient and caregiver safety via infection control, while drastically reducing hospital costs, with revolutionary antimicrobial solutions for your staff. Mobile phones used by health care workers in daily practice may be a significant source of nosocomial infection transmission in healthcare.
Reported 94.5% of ICU cell phones may be contaminated with pathologic organisms. Using antimicrobial protection mechanisms pioneered by RidRx, your staff will be pleased to uphold your hand hygiene standards and protect themselves and their patients from their contaminated devices. Hospital infection rates can be above 5%. Overall cost of these infections is estimated by the CDC to cost 31 Billion dollars of cost for healthcare not allowable for reimbursement by CMS.
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Germaphone app for iPhone download here
HaloShield Textiles
Just dose your home laundry with a cup of bleach and your textiles are sterile and remain that way
Discounts by www.RidRx.com hospital advantage program, or purchase We will be rolling out our product line and services in January. These include: •
Antimicrobial Phone Covers treated with Microban or IonArmour
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Antimicrobial Lab Coats and Scrubs treated with HaloShield
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iStetho Solution - patent pending Stethoscope attachment Solution for
RECENT STUDIES
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Hand Hygiene iPhone Application called Germaphone •Hygiena Contamination Meter – allow us to test your surfaces with leasing program
Effective Hand Hygiene Campaign
Choose effective infection control and hand hygiene methods and give your providers tools that they can appreciate and use effectively. Potential for more than a 10X cost savings
MOBILE DEVICE
LAB COATS
SCRUBS
Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob. 2009:8:7 Are we aware how contaminated our mobile phones are? In ICU setting 94.5 with pathologic organisms
Link here Banned in some countries
Link here Scrubs laundered at home vs. hospital.
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ISTETHO SOLUTION IS SIMPLE STETHOSCOPES ARE MOVING TOWARDS DIGITAL BUT DONT THROUGH YOUR OLD ONE AWAY YET. JUST ADAPT IT TO YOUR IPHONE SO THAT YOU CAN USE THE MICROPHONE OF THE IPHONE TO CONVERT TO DIGITAL. THE PATENTED ISTETHO ADAPTER HAS WORKED HARD TO CREATE THE BEST POSSIBLE SOUND
PROOFING CHANNEL TO THAT MICROPHONE AND EVOLVE THE STETOSCOPE TO THE IPHONE. THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE JUST USE A TRAUMA SHEARS TO CUT YOUR OLD
ISTETHO
STETHOSCOPE AT THE BIFURCATION AND ATTACH TO THE MAIL END OF THE ISTETHO ADAPTER AND THEN DOWNLOAD THE ISTETHOSCOPE PRO APPLICATION. THATS IT.
ISTETHOSCOPE PRO DOWNLOAD
ISTETHO HEAR / SEE WAVEFORM & EMAIL
ISTETHO IS DIGITAL DONE RIGHT JUST BUY THE ISTETHO ADAPTER, DOWNLOAD THE 99 CENT APP, AND CUT YOUR STETHOSCOPE AT THE BIFURCATION YOU ARE READY TO ROLL TO DIGITAL STETHOSCOPE VERSION 2.0
Julia Fullerton JuliaF@RidRx.com H 720-475-1125 C 303-638-8383
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