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Coping with Mental Health During Quarantine

Coping with Mental Health During Quarantine

Mental health has become significantly more crucial to Americans during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

A distinctive attribute of COVID-19 is that there are many unknowns. The sickness itself currently has no known cure or proven treatment. Additionally, there are contradicting pieces of information about what should be done to control the virus, which can result in anxiety and fear.

The caliber of this disease has caused people to significantly alter their day-to-day lives. And for those who were already suffering from anxiety before the global outbreak, they are having a particularly challenging time adjusting to these new conditions.

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Covid-19 Tracing Apps

Covid-19 Tracing Apps: A Valuable Tool to Slow the Spread

We are now five months into a global pandemic, and COVID-19 has taken an insurmountable tool on life as we know it.

As countries around the world work to come up with a proven vaccine, slow the spread in communities, and minimize lives taken by the virus, smartphone apps have become one of many strategies to do just that.

Since the virus can be transmitted from affected people through being in a close vicinity, health authorities have pinpointed “contact tracing” as a helpful tool.

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Healthcare Equity

Achieving Health Equity

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Equity is the absence of avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically.”

The WHO goes onto explain, “Health inequities involve more than inequality with respect to health determinants, access to the resources needed to improve and maintain health or health outcomes. They also entail a failure to avoid or overcome inequalities that infringe on fairness and human rights norms.”

Systematic variances among different population groups have been in the news for years and is once again making headlines in recent weeks. Compared to other industrialized countries, the United States has historically ranked low on measures of health equity. Additionally, a 2017 report shows a wide variation of disparity in health status by state.

The economic strain of health disparities in America is expected to increase to $126 billion in 2020 and rising to over $350 billion by 2050 if the disparities stay the same.

Health gaps among different race populations in the U.S. is due in part to decades of systematic inequality — from housing to the economy, to the infrastructure of healthcare systems.

According to the Center for American Progress, in 2017, over 10% of African Americans or Black Americans were uninsured, compared to nearly 6% of non-Hispanic whites. Additionally, over 12% of African Americans (under the age of 65) reportedly had no health insurance coverage.

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New Normal in Medicine

COVID-19: Navigating the New Normal in Medicine

Cities and states across America are taking steps for reopening after the coronavirus pandemic swept through homes, businesses, the economy, and our healthcare system.

A common topic of conversation is when and how will we ever go “back to normal.” As months pass and the country is still very much impacted by COVID-19, it is becoming clear that life as we know it will change.

Thanks to the coronavirus the healthcare industry was hit extremely hard on a variety of levels. Hospital administration and clinical leadership have revised protocols in order to account for slowing down the spread of COVID-19. 

Here are three key areas where the healthcare industry will navigate a new normal, for both patients and providers.

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Returning to the workforce

Returning to the Workplace – COVID-19 Considerations

After months of navigating pandemic quarantines, PPE procurement challenges, staggering economic ramifications, and lives tragically taken from COVID-19, Americans are slowly reintegrating back into public spaces, and back into the workforce.

Employers of all sizes will need to take a long, hard look at their operational practices in order to implement health and safety measures. These practices will need to abide by both the law and safety regulations.

In this blog post, we established some important areas for achieving safety as a part of a pandemic return-to-work strategy. Designing compromises for the workplace, and creating efficiencies, should be a top priority for businesses.

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4 Virtual Reality Breakthroughs in Healthcare

Virtual reality (VR) has become an undeniable powerhouse within the healthcare industry.

The VR marketshare is forecasted to explode to nearly $4 billion this year in the medical ecosystem, as reported by global industry analysts. Grand View Research foresees the market expanding to an unprecedented $5 billion within the next five years.

This cutting edge technology is transforming the healthcare industry across a wide spectrum, from pain management, to training medical students and professionals.

 

Here are 4 key breakthroughs where VR is making history.

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Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality & Healthcare: 3 Key Areas of Transformation

Virtual reality (VR) has made a major imprint among workplaces and in consumers’ lives.

 VR, is often found in gaming, digital entertainment, and retail shopping. One example is the eye glass company, Warby Parker, who take the guesswork out of online shopping for frames with a 3D virtual “try-on” tool. The 3D virtual “try-on” tool allows the remote shopper to try on various frames on their face shape without having to visit the store. Among all of the industries VR has infiltrated healthcare has arguably experienced the most impactful changes. Over the last several years, VR has positively enhanced patients’ outcomes and surgeons’ performance.

Within the healthcare market VR is projected to reach over $30 billion on a global scale within the next six years, displaying a CAGR of 42.4% from 2019-2026.

Here are 3 key areas where VR is positively transforming the healthcare industry.

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The Auxo Difference: Refurbished Equipment

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Here at Auxo, we pride ourselves on delivering the best-refurbished equipment to our customers and continuing long, lasting relationships with them. As a leader in the health technology industry, we know that some refurbishment companies that do not live up to the same ideals of exceptional care that we do. To spread awareness of these poor refurbishment practices, we have provided tips on how to compare good refurbishment companies from the bad.

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Good Bacteria vs. Bad Bacteria

Good Bacteria vs. Bad Bacteria: What’s the Difference?

Did you know that our gastrointestinal tract (GI) is referred to as our “second brain“? The GI tract has its own reflexes and works independently of the brain, spinal cord, and the central nervous system. Organs that make up our GI tract are a “superhighway” in our body, that includes our mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and anus.

Our brain and gut are connected by a substantial network, including hundreds of millions of neurons, chemicals, and hormones that consistently provide feedback. The feedback dictates our hunger levels, if we’re experiencing stress, or if we’ve consumed a disease-inducing microbe (a microorganism).

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Meet Our Service Team

Here at Auxo, we pride ourselves on our service to customer relationships. Our service team not only provides customers with optimal repair service but also takes an extra step into building long-lasting relationships with them.

As we come into a new year, we would like to introduce you to our service team and take the first step into starting a growing relationship with you.


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Mark Fisher

Partner, Vice President of National Contract Sales and Service

  • BS from East Carolina University in Industrial Distribution and Logistics
  • 12 years of field and managerial experience working with sterile processing and biomedical equipment
  • Certified to maintain Steris, Primus, Getinge, Scientek, Tuttnauer products
  • Virginia Biomedical Association Member since 2014
  • Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certificate

How do your efforts on a day to day basis affect customers, and further, help them to help their patients?

 I like knowing that when I am on site to fix something that I feel empowered that my knowledge and experience will ultimately get the customer up and running. Like I always say, “If your oven is down your not cooking any food for your customers and the sterilizers and washers are like your kitchen of a surgery center!”

What do you like about working at Auxo Medical?

The fact that every day is completely different and their are new challenges to face. Also I don’t have a “desk job”, I get to visit friends and customers to help fix their issues at their facilities.”


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Claude McGuire

AAMI Certified Biomedical Equipment Technician (CBET)

  • GE Anesthesia Machine, ventilator, vaporizer certification
  • Erie Institute of Technology Associates Biomedical Equipment Technician
  • Certified to maintain Steris, Primus, Getinge, Scientek, Tuttnauer products 8 years of field experience with Sterile Processing, Biomedical, and Anesthesia Equipment

How do your efforts on a day to day basis affect customers, and further, help them to help their patients?

By maintaining their equipment calibrations, and performing preventative maintenance ; we prevent down time and they know the equipment is up to standards. I try to form a working relationship with every customer which helps both them and us during stressful situations.

What do you like about working at Auxo Medical?

No day is ever the same! I could be doing a PM one day and the next day be across the state working on a sterilizer. I am always learning new things ; be it a new process, a more efficient way to approach a problem, or a new item of equipment to work on.

Auxo, as a company, is one of the best employers I have had – I have been treated with respect since day one, by everyone in the company. I enjoy coming to work, knowing that I am appreciated and respected.


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Anthony Knighten

  • Central Georgia Technical College Associates in Electronics Technology
  • 2 years of field experience working with sterile processing and biomedical equipment
  • Certified to maintain Steris Sterilizers, Washers, Steam Generators
  • Experience maintaining Steris, Primus, Getinge, Scientek, Midmark Tuttnauer products

How do your efforts on a day to day basis affect customers, and further, help them to help their patients?

Most of my efforts go to ensuring equipment stays running or fixing what is not. By keeping equipment working properly, I help the hospital do what it does best, help people. With the equipment running hearts can be transplanted, bones can be mended, and blood can be drawn, in some small function I help these things to happen.

What do you like about working at Auxo Medical?

What I like most about working at Auxo is that I get the opportunity to help people everyday. Knowing that my expertise is making a change in the lives of others motivates me to do my best work.


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Chris Leadingham 

  • Studied Industrial Maintenance at Morehead State University
  • 18 years experience troubleshooting Hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical systems
  • 1 year of field experience with Sterilize Processing and Biomedical Equipment
  • Experience maintaining Steris, Primus, Getinge, Scientek, Lynx , Tuttnauer products

How do your efforts on a day to day basis affect customers, and further, help them to help their patients?

Listening and handling customer problems with patience goes a long way in helping customers know that you are delivering effective solutions. Time management is also crucial in service and repair. Our customers want their machines up and running, so it is our job to drive efficiency. Lastly, knowing that putting in the extra effort will come back to patients or research in or at the hospital ten-fold is the driving motivation to put forth excellent service.

What do you like about working at Auxo Medical?

I like that I am constantly presented with new challenges and I am able to use my resources to push myself in areas that I lack confidence in. Consequently, I have learned a lot and the Auxo staff is very talented, has excellent leadership, and everyone is treated with respect.


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