The Joint Commission has started citing facilities for using instruments that have been laser etched. The issue is that the laser etching process happens after the instrument is passivated, which creates a hole in the passivated layer.

On July 18th 2024, CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, released a software update that wasn’t fully vetted and contained errors. Crowdstrike’s primary business is anti-virus and intrusion detection software that needs to be installed at the kernel level on the machine’s it protects.

You may have seen bar codes popping up in all sorts of medical devices and supplies in the last several years, including 2D barcodes on the SteriTite® Universal Sealed Container System.