About The "Distribution Channel" For Hospitals.

In a time of rapid change, disributors and distribution channels tend to change faster than anything else. And it is also on distributions and distribution channels that the "Information Revolution" is likely to have the greatest impact.

The Health Maintenance Organisation (HMO) has increasingly become the "distribution channel" for hospitals, where only ten years ago, the hospital distribution channel was the Physician. Increasingly, hospitals are therefore, working with HMOs to reach both physician and patient.

By: PETER F. DRUCKER, The World's Leading Management Guru, in his book: "Management Challenges for the 21st Century"

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Old Dialysis Filters Are Responsible For Kidney Patient Injuries.

Investigators from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention report that old, deteriorating filters used in the dialysis process were to blame for kidney patient injuries.

The dialyser used in dialysis, a blood filtering process necessary for the survival of patients with kidney failure, contains a membrane that filters the impurities and waste from the blood of the patient before it is returned to the body.

The researchers collected dialysers from hospitals that ranged in age from brand new to more than 13 years old. Based on analysis of these dialysers, the researchers concluded that older membranes are more likely than newer ones to become degraded and occassionally toxic components enter the blood.

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