Safety and compliance
As a nuclear medicine professional, you strive for the highest level of safety and compliance. While handling radiopharmaceuticals, your responsibilities extend beyond the patients you care for to to those you touch wherever you go.
Enhanced patient care, collaboration and compliance
Healthcare providers continue to face increasingly complex compliance and regulatory requirements from various agencies that can impact the nuclear medicine department.
These agencies include:
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
- Department of Transportation (DOT)
- Various accreditation agencies
Can you ever be too safe?
We know you do everything you can to be safe at work. As a nuclear medicine professional, you strive for the highest level of safety, often putting your patients and your colleagues ahead of yourself. While handling radiopharmaceuticals and sharps, your responsibilities extend beyond the patients you care for to those you touch everywhere you go.
Your patients, team and family depend on you to use good safety precautions at work and to take care of yourself. From working diligently with your team to providing the best patient care, we want you to be as safe as you can be.
Health Physics Services
Cardinal Health’s Health Physics Services offering helps customers manage their compliance with NRC and state regulations.
Other safety tools
Cardinal Health offers additional safety tools for you to help ensure the safety of you and your patients.
Accreditation and management
Cardinal Health is here to give you confidence you are compliant with medication management standards in nuclear medicine.
Needlestick safety
We aim to provide you the utmost control through tools that help you reduce needlesticks and maintain OSHA compliance.
PET biomarker manufacturing
Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) ensures PET biomarkers have the high levels of consistency, quality and purity required by the FDA.
USP <825>
Standards of USP General Chapter <825> Radiopharmaceuticals - Preparation, Compounding, Dispensing and Repackaging.
Minimize radiation exposure
To help minimize radiation exposure, we offer a variety of syringe shields and an innovative delivery system for Iodine I-131 NaI.
FDA-approved
Our compliance resource library can help ensure your facility uses FDA-approved radiopharmaceuticals and are included on formulary.
USP <797>
We help you comply more easily with USP <797> standards with limited incremental cost and minimal impact on day-to-day operations.
Bloodborne Pathogens standard
Our innovative line of needle safety products help you comply with the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens standard.