TO BE FEATURED IN THE NEXT INDUSTRY INNOVATIONS
Industry Innovations for Winter 2021 will showcase innovative product offerings and practice recommendations supporting cleaning and disinfection for infection prevention and control in health care.
The past year has been filled with extraordinary circumstances as a result of the battle against COVID-19 and Environmental Services (EVS) professionals have been on the frontline all along. Securing the required cleaning and disinfecting supplies has been one of the main challenges faced by EVS, while trying to keep surfaces clean and disinfected for everyone’s safety. The industry as a whole faced many new challenges which were brought upon by supply shortages, the need to adapt to changes in the supply chain and staffing shortages, while providing extensive training to EVS personnel based on the latest disinfection protocols that allow us to protect patients, fellow healthcare workers and ourselves.
Our healthcare system relies on keeping surfaces sanitized as one of the key elements in breaking the chain of transmission of infectious agents. The future will most certainly bring forward new and emerging infections and EVS professionals are gearing up to ensure that we are ready to face these battles. New disinfection technologies and many parallel innovations will help make the difference for this evolving industry. With this in mind, industry partners are being called upon to showcase equipment and technology which will make a difference in our quest to stop the spread of infection through environmental surfaces.
GUIDELINES
The role of the Editor and Guest Editors, Industry Innovations, is to ensure this publication is a high quality, structured, and comparative resource for Infection Prevention and Control Canada’s (IPAC Canada) core membership. All submissions to Industry Innovations are subject to curatorial review. Relevance to IPAC Canada membership and integrity of claims will be assessed prior to approval or denial of publication partnership. For whitepapers accepted for publication, the editor and publisher will coordinate with the submitting industry partner prior to publication with applicable technical editing requests. The editor and publisher will also ensure that the curation and publishing process of whitepapers and advertisements accepted for publication are managed transparently in consultation with authoring industry partners.
Preferred whitepapers for publication in Industry Innovations will refrain from subjective and unverifiable claims. They will use a mixture of industry voice, technical specification, and use-case logistics with significant attention to the immediate organizational impact of implementation. The numbered guideline sections below are sequentially ordered to provide a comparable reading flow throughout Industry Innovations volumes and must be adhered to during whitepaper development. The suggested word count is included for the whitepaper author’s reference to ensure sufficient content is incorporated into each section without exceeding the suggested submission length of 4500 words.
GENERAL GUIDELINES:
For in-text citations, use parenthetical numbers (Vancouver style) and append references to end of whitepaper using the same order of numbers appearing in-text
Industry Innovations for Summer 2021 will showcase innovative product offerings supporting personal protective equipment (PPE) for infection prevention and control in health care.
We have had an unprecedented year and the focus on personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted its importance in health care. From
production and supply to distribution and use, PPE plays an integral role in keeping healthcare workers safe. In light of that, the past year has raised some interesting questions and challenges regarding PPE including its shelf life, the advantages and disadvantages of disposable versus reusable PPE, the use of masks for PPE and source control, extending the use of PPE and the feasibility of decontamination of different types of PPE, to name a few.
The use of PPE is considered the last line of the defense in the hierarchy of controls and the use
of PPE is an integral part of healthcare systems to help prevent the transmission of infectious agents. New and emerging infections continue to test the boundaries of our knowledge
and use of infection prevention and control measures, including how we procure and use PPE. We welcome innovations from our industry partners that can assist in addressing these
challenges to support IPAC programs to build effective surveillance practices and processes.
Thank you to IPAC Canada members for the continued opportunity to showcase our industry partners in this publication.
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT GUIDELINES:
The role of the Editor, Industry Innovations is to ensure this publication is a high quality, structured, and comparative resource for Infection Prevention and Control Canada’s (IPAC Canada) core membership.
All submissions to Industry Innovations are subject to curatorial review.
Relevance to IPAC Canada membership and integrity of claims will be assessed prior to approval or denial of publication partnership. For whitepapers accepted for publication, the editor, guest editor, and publisher will coordinate with the submitting industry partner prior to publication with applicable technical editing requests. The editor, guest editor, and publisher will also ensure the curation and publishing process of whitepapers and advertisements accepted for publication are managed transparently in consultation with authoring industry partners.
Preferred whitepapers for publication in Industry Innovations will refrain from subjective and unverifiable claims. They will use a mixture of industry voice, technical specification, and use-case logistics with significant attention to the immediate organizational impact of implementation. The numbered guideline sections below are sequentially ordered to provide a comparable reading flow throughout Industry Innovations volumes and must be adhered to during whitepaper development. The suggested word count is included for the whitepaper author’s reference to ensure sufficient content is incorporated into each section without exceeding the suggested submission length of 4500 words.
GENERAL GUIDELINES:
In an effort to promote fair and respectful competition, IPAC Canada stipulates that companies advertising in its various communication initiatives do not disparage competitors’ products or services or make false or unsubstantiated claims about their own products or services. IPAC Canada has the right to refuse any advertising that it deems unacceptable in this regard.