Every new year brings with it New Year’s resolutions. And these resolutions don’t have to be personal goals, as Censis Clinical Educator Jill Sweeney explained to ConCensis’ Tyler Kern. Resolutions can also apply to effective surgical instrument management. Sweeney gave Kern six solid ways that CensiTrac can help steer 2022 in the right direction. Losing weight is a resolution that is familiar to most, but in SPD, the goals are a bit different. “Running an overloaded sterilizer, having overweigh...
Jan 20, 2022•22 min•Ep. 1
Censis Technologies is helping you to jumpstart your 2022 sterile processing resolutions with an exciting panel and live Q&A featuring our very own Director of Clinical Services, Kelly Swails. Before the holidays, Kelly sat down with Jarvis Smith and Alina R. Easley, sterile processing experts from the Department of Veterans Affairs, to discuss the highs and lows of 2021 and how we can apply those lessons learned in 2022. This broadcast event will feature a live Q&A with Alina, Jarvis, a...
Jan 20, 2022•38 min•Ep. 1
CensiTrac’s robust reporting capabilities can provide sterile processing departments (SPDs) with a wealth of opportunities for efficiencies. Dalton Carter, Technical Support Manager at Censis, discussed some of these CensiTrac features with host Hilary Kennedy. "SPD’s need to report on a wealth of important information from sterilization records to employee productivity to anything with case tracking, and knowing what was used on a patient specifically,” Carter said. Competencies within CensiTra...
Dec 16, 2021•9 min•Ep. 1
On this episode of the podcast, host Tyler Kern talked with Kelly Swails, Director of Clinical Services for Censis Technologies, the industry leader in surgical instrument management systems, offering advanced, web-based software systems. Kern and Swails talked about the lifecycle of a container and the importance of tracking during the process. Today, we’re talking about documenting the lifecycle of a container. As a clinical educator, Swails helps companies optimize their use of CensiTrac Inst...
Dec 16, 2021•17 min•Ep. 1
Healthcare has plenty of potential pain points to go around, but one of the industry’s longest-lasting is the proper use of immediate use steam sterilization (IUSS). The procedure, traditionally known as “flash sterilization,” offers the quickest possible time between an instrument’s use and its ability to be used again. However, that benefit is countered by several key challenges. Notably, a lack of documentation and proper recordkeeping, specifically around the use of trays, and general concer...
Dec 16, 2021•24 min•Ep. 1
As leaders, it's always important to listen to your employees. But, now might be the most crucial time to listen and understand the needs of employees who are going through tumultuous times. Empathy and appreciation are vital tools as leaders look to navigate the pandemic. On the second part of this ConCensis podcast episode, Host Daniel Litwin talked with Derek Murray, Senior Client Portfolio Manager at Censis Technologies. They dug into company leadership and how well it responded during the p...
Dec 16, 2021•18 min•Ep. 1
As a society at large, we've gone through a massive cultural upheaval and have had many of our societal norms challenged by a time of crisis. Not only was this a strain on everyone's day-to-day stability, but it also put a wrench in most office-setting business leadership. In this first part of a Censis Technologies podcast episode, Host Daniel Litwin talked with Derek Murray, Senior Client Portfolio Manager at Censis Technologies. They dug into company leadership and how well it responded durin...
Dec 16, 2021•25 min•Ep. 1
Hank Balch, founder and President of Beyond Clean, joined host Hilary Kennedy on ConCensis to discuss how instrument tracking data can be a resume goldmine in today’s sterile processing landscape. Balch has a long and extensive resume filled with of industry awards, blogs, social media prowess and conference speeches. Balch started as a frontline technician in instrument reprocessing. He spoke about how his work in sterile processing changed after becoming a father, when he realized that when it...
Dec 09, 2021•17 min•Ep. 1
As leaders, it's always important to listen to your employees. But, now might be the most crucial time to listen and understand the needs of employees who are going through tumultuous times. Empathy and appreciation are vital tools as leaders look to navigate the pandemic. On the second part of this ConCensis podcast episode, Host Daniel Litwin talked with Derek Murray, Senior Client Portfolio Manager at Censis Technologies. They dug into company leadership and how well it responded during the p...
Oct 16, 2021•18 min•Ep. 1
As a society at large, we've gone through a massive cultural upheaval and have had many of our societal norms challenged by a time of crisis. Not only was this a strain on everyone's day-to-day stability, but it also put a wrench in most office-setting business leadership. On this first part of a Censis Technologies podcast episode, Host Daniel Litwin talked with Derek Murray, Senior Client Portfolio Manager at Censis Technologies. They dug into company leadership and how well it responded durin...
Oct 16, 2021•24 min•Ep. 1
There’s never been a greater need for hospitals and other healthcare operations to have full visibility into their assets and how they’re being used in operating room settings and beyond. In a healthcare landscape that’s seen most healthcare operations adopt some form of electronic health records (EHR) solution, Censis’s solutions can integrate with those capabilities and provide a more intuitive, seamless experience in ensuring that visibility. To discuss the benefits of Censis solutions like C...
Sep 20, 2021•16 min•Ep. 1
Healthcare has plenty of potential pain points to go around, but one of the industry’s longest lasting is the proper use of immediate use steam sterilization, or IUSS. The procedure, traditionally known as “flash sterilization,” offers the quickest possible time between an instrument’s use and its ability to be used again. However, that benefit is countered by several key challenges. Notably, a lack of documentation and proper recordkeeping, specifically around the use of trays, and general conc...
Sep 20, 2021•24 min•Ep. 1
CensiTrac’s robust reporting capabilities can provide sterile processing departments (SPDs) with a wealth of opportunities for efficiencies. Dalton Carter, Technical Support Manager at Censis, discussed some of these CensiTrac features with host Hilary Kennedy. "SPD’s need to report on a wealth of important information from sterilization records to employee productivity to anything with case tracking, and knowing what was used on a patient specifically,” Carter said. Competencies within CensiTra...
Sep 20, 2021•9 min•Ep. 1
Sam Harrison, Senior Clinical Educator at Censis Technologies, provided Tyler Kern with an education in endoscopy when he guided him through the lifecycle of a scope and how Censis technologies’ ScopeTrac and CensiTrac play a vital role in the process. Scopes first go through a deamination process before they enter the OR. CensiTrac then captures the cleaning and reprocessing procedures. “When the tech checks that scope into the scope processing module, the instructions for use are displayed,” H...
Aug 06, 2021•14 min•Ep. 1
