Applications Of Turbidimeters In Healthcare Industry

Overview

Healthcare is a broad and multidisciplinary field focused on the maintenance, improvement, and restoration of an individual’s physical and mental well-being. It encompasses a wide range of activities, services, and professions aimed at promoting and ensuring good health. The overarching goal of healthcare is to promote and maintain the highest possible level of physical and mental well-being for individuals and communities, thereby improving their overall quality of life. It plays a crucial role in addressing public health challenges, promoting equity in access to care, and advancing medical knowledge and practice.

Depending on specific features and functions, GAO Tek’s turbidimeters are sometimes referred to as Turbidity meters, Turbidity analyzers, Cloudiness meters, Suspended solids analyzers, Haze meters, Particle content analyzers, Optical density meters, Sediment concentration meters.

GAO Tek’s turbidimeters have the following applications in healthcare Industry:

Water Quality Testing: Ensuring access to clean and safe drinking water is crucial for public health. Turbidimeters are used to monitor the turbidity of water supplies in healthcare facilities to ensure that water is free from particles and contaminants that could pose health risks to patients and staff.
Laboratory and Diagnostic Testing: Some medical and diagnostic procedures may require the use of clear and pure liquids. Turbidimeters can be used in laboratories to assess the clarity and purity of reagents and test samples, ensuring accurate test results.
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: In pharmaceutical production, maintaining the quality and purity of medications and other products is essential. Turbidimeters may be used to monitor the clarity of pharmaceutical formulations to ensure they meet quality standards.
Dialysis: In hemodialysis and other medical procedures that involve filtering blood or fluids, turbidity measurement can be important to ensure that the dialysate or other solutions are clear and free from impurities that could harm the patient.
Medical Device Cleaning: Cleaning and sterilization processes for medical equipment and instruments may require the measurement of solution clarity. Turbidimeters can help confirm that cleaning solutions are effective and that devices are properly cleaned and safe for use.

More information on turbidimeters and their applications in other industries can be found on this page.

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Complying With Healthcare Industry Standards

GAO Tek’s turbidimeters comply or help our customers comply with the healthcare industry standards such as

ISO 7027:2016 – Measurement of turbidity in water
ASTM D6698-17 – Standard Test Method
USP <788> – Particulate Matter in Injections
USP <729> – Light-Blocking Properties
USP <731> – Loss on Drying
USP <788> – Particulate Matter in Ophthalmic Solutions
USP <788> – Particulate Matter in Oral Solutions and Suspensions
USP <789> – Particulate Matter in Injections: Light Obscuration Particle Count Test
USP <788> – Particulate Matter in Injections: Subvisible Particle Count Test

Complying With Government Regulations

GAO Tek’s turbidimeters comply or help our customers comply with the U.S. government regulations such as

42 CFR Part 493 – Laboratory Requirements
21 CFR Part 50 – Protection of Human Subjects
21 CFR Part 56 – Institutional Review Boards
21 CFR Part 58 – Good Laboratory Practice for Nonclinical Laboratory Studies
21 CFR Part 210 – Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing
21 CFR Part 211 – Current Good Manufacturing Practice for Finished Pharmaceuticals
21 CFR Part 606 – Current Good Manufacturing Practice for Blood Components
21 CFR Part 820 – Quality System Regulation for Medical Devices
CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) Regulations

GAO Tek’s turbidimeters comply or help our clients comply with the Canadian regulations such as

Health Canada Medical Device Regulations
Canadian Standards Association (CSA) standards for medical devices
Canadian Medical Devices Conformity Assessment System (CMDCAS) requirements
Canadian Healthcare Facility Standards for water quality monitoring
Provincial and territorial regulations related to water quality and healthcare facilities
Health Canada Guidelines for Infection Control in Healthcare Facilities

GAO Tek’s turbidimeters comply or help our clients comply with the Mexican regulations such as

NOM-031-SSA2-1999
NOM-013-SSA2-1994
NOM-014-SSA1-1993
NOM-127-SSA1-1994
NOM-230-SSA1-2002
NOM-232-SSA1-2009
NOM-244-SSA1-2008

GAO Tek’s turbidimeters comply or help our clients comply with the European regulations such as

EU In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR) 2017/746
ISO 7027:2016 – Water quality – Determination of turbidity
ISO 15528:2013 – Water quality – Preservation and handling of water samples
ISO 11923:2019 – Water quality – Determination of turbidity by nephelometry
ISO 7027-1:2016 – Water quality – Determination of turbidity Quantitative methods

Case Studies of Turbidimeters in Healthcare Industry

Turbidimeters are sometimes called as:

Turbidity meters, Turbidity analyzers, Cloudiness meters, Suspended solids analyzers, Haze meters, Particle content analyzers, Optical density meters, Sediment concentration meters.

Here are some practical examples of using turbidimeters in healthcare industry:

Turbidimeters can be used to monitor the quality of water in healthcare facilities, ensuring that water used for medical procedures and patient care meets quality standards.

Turbidimeters are crucial in dialysis units to monitor the clarity and purity of water used in dialysis machines to prevent any contamination of the dialysis fluid.

Turbidity measurements are essential in pharmaceutical manufacturing processes to monitor the clarity of solutions, ensuring the quality and consistency of medications.

In clinical laboratories, turbidimeters may be used for various applications, such as measuring the turbidity of biological samples, reagents, or culture media.

Turbidimeters can be used to monitor the presence of bacteria or particles in healthcare environments, helping with infection control efforts.

Turbidity measurements can be employed in medical research studies to assess the characteristics of particles or suspensions in biological samples.

In clinical laboratories, turbidimeters may be used for various applications, such as measuring the turbidity of biological samples, reagents, or culture media.

GAO RFID Inc. RFID Hardware | RFID Systems, a sister company of GAO Tek Inc., is ranked as a top 10 RFID supplier in the world. Its RFID, BLE, and IoT products have also been widely used in healthcare industry.

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Use of Turbidimeters With Leading Software And Cloud Services in Healthcare Industry

GAO Tek has used or has facilitated its customers to use GAO’s turbidimeters with some of the leading software and cloud services in their applications. Examples of such leading software and cloud services include

Hach Data Management Software
Hanna Instruments HI-92000 Software
Thermo Fisher Scientific DataLink
Palintest Pooltest 9 Photometer Software
DR 900 Series Software
Chemitec TurbiSpec Software
LaMotte DataLink Software
Myron L Ultrameter II Software
Mettler Toledo LabX Direct Turbidity
YSI ProDSS Data Manager
Lovibond SD 900 DataLink
Shimadzu LabSolutions Software
Orion Star Com Software
VWR Signature DataScan II Software
Aquaread Aqualogger Software
Hanna Instruments HI 98713 Software
ProCal Primary Turbidity Standards Software
Lamotte Green-Site DataLink
Sigma-Aldrich ChemStation Software
Hach Claros Data Management Platform

GAO Tek’s turbidimeters and their applications in other industries are listed on this page.

Environmental Turbidimeters

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Meeting Customers’ Demands

Large Choice of Products

In order to satisfy the diversified needs of their corporate customers, GAO Tek Inc. and its sister company GAO RFID Inc. together offer a wide choice of testing and measurement devices, network products, RFID, BLE, IoT, and drones.

Fast Delivery

To shorten the delivery to our customers, GAO has maintained a large stock of its products and is able to ship overnight within the continental U.S. and Canada, and fast delivery to Mexico and Europe from the nearest warehouse.

Local to Our Customers

We are located in both the U.S. and Canada. We travel to customers’ premises if necessary. Hence, we provide a very strong local support to our customers in North America, particularly the U.S., Canada and Mexico and Europe. Furthermore, we have built partnerships with some integrators, consulting firms and other service providers in different cities to further strengthen our services. Here are some of the service providers in healthcare industry we have worked with to serve our joint customers:

Cerner Corporation
Epic Systems Corporation
McKesson Corporation
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
Athenahealth
Change Healthcare
GE Healthcare
Siemens Healthineers
NextGen Healthcare
Cognizant
IBM Watson Health
Accenture
Deloitte
Optum (a part of UnitedHealth Group)
NTT Data Services
Leidos
DXC Technology
HCL Technologies
Wipro
Cognosante

GAO Has Many Customers in Healthcare Industry

The products from both GAO Tek Inc. and GAO RFID Inc. have been widely used in healthcare industry by many customers, including some leading companies. Here is more information on applications of GAO RFID Inc.’s products in healthcare industry.

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Here are some of GAO’s customers in healthcare industry: