U.S. Infection Prevention Product Demand Will Increase
http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2011/12/us-demand-for-infection-prevention-products-to-rise-51-percent-annually-through-2015.aspx 
Infection prevention is and continues to be a major concern in the United States and throughout the world. MRSA, VRE, and C-diff are at the top of most everyone’s list currently of malignant microbes that need to be eradicated in the hospital and healthcare environment. This article states due to…” stepped-up efforts by medical providers to reduce the incidence and mortality of healthcare-associated infections,…” that there will be in increase in the demand for infection prevention products.
“Hospitals and other healthcare establishments are adopting stricter standards…” This is exciting news for the infection prevention product industry, but the patients, visitors, and medical staff are the ones that will benefit most from higher standards.
“Patient and staff hygiene and protection, facility cleaning and disinfection, device and instrument sterilization, and medical waste collection and disposal” the article states, will be the main focus of higher standards.
Education of engineers that design and build hospitals and healthcare facilities is extremely important. The infection prevention begins from the ground up. MRSA, VRE, and C-diff are all airborne. Designing and installing air purification and filtration can significantly reduce airborne pathogens thereby reducing the amount of surface, staff, and patient contamination. An infection prevention product such as air purification using photocatalytic oxidation can destroy airborne malignant microbes. Air purification combined with strict hygiene by medical staff, surface cleaning and sterilization saves lives and reduces costs for the facilities, and patients.