It seems to me like hospitals would be the kind of organizations that care a lot about reducing infections. Is there any analysis about what a hospital could achieve if they deployed it everywhere in reducing hospital-acquired infections?
Given the amount of money hospitals currently invest into keeping everything clean, they should be the kind of organizations that are first to adopt the technology even when it’s relatively expensive.
It seems to me like that price should still be okay for health care applications. Health care applications just need more clinical evidence. Without patent protection the manufactors of the lamps likely don’t have a good business model to pay for the lamps. Advances in lamp technology would have the nice benefit of producing a technology that can be defended with patents and thus making the business model work.
It seems to me like hospitals would be the kind of organizations that care a lot about reducing infections. Is there any analysis about what a hospital could achieve if they deployed it everywhere in reducing hospital-acquired infections?
Given the amount of money hospitals currently invest into keeping everything clean, they should be the kind of organizations that are first to adopt the technology even when it’s relatively expensive.
When Googling I found that Amazon.com doesn’t sell any of the KrCl lamps. https://www.waronflu.com/product/222-nm-krypton-chloride-krcl-40-watt-far-uvc-excimer-bulb-222nm-first-uvc-f-series-40w-far-uv-light-24v-dc/ seems to sell them directly. On aspect of the page is that they expect the lamps to work for 4000 hours. That means that you would likely have to reinstall new lamps every year which adds to costs.
It seems to me like that price should still be okay for health care applications. Health care applications just need more clinical evidence. Without patent protection the manufactors of the lamps likely don’t have a good business model to pay for the lamps. Advances in lamp technology would have the nice benefit of producing a technology that can be defended with patents and thus making the business model work.