Editorial Standards
These standards govern everything published here: articles, guides, glossary entries, vendor records, and any commercial program. They are operating constraints rather than aspirations, and several of them are enforced as fields in the data rather than as policy.
Commercial visibility can be purchased. Trust cannot.
Vendors can expand their presence in the discovery system. They cannot purchase a factual conclusion, an editorial comparison, a regulatory characterization, or a recommendation.
Corrections of genuine factual errors are made regardless of whether a commercial relationship exists, and are never conditioned on one.
Scope
This site publishes business, procurement, and technology information for healthcare organizations and the companies selling to them. It does not provide medical diagnosis, treatment recommendations, prescribing guidance, or patient-specific advice.
It does not collect, request, publish, or monetize patient health information. Forms collect the minimum needed for a business inquiry and say explicitly that patient information must not be submitted.
How vendor records are sourced
Every vendor record separates three things and labels which is which on the record itself:
- Editorial. Structured facts compiled from public company materials and public records, with the review date shown.
- Vendor supplied. The company’s own statements about its products, published as the company’s statements and not converted into editorial fact.
- Sponsored. Content or placement resulting from a commercial relationship, disclosed on the record it affects.
Anything that cannot be confidently established is marked as not independently verified rather than guessed.
Regulatory language
No product is described here as approved, cleared, authorized, certified, or equivalent unless that specific status has been verified against the applicable regulatory record.
These terms are not interchangeable and are not treated as such. At launch, no vendor record in this directory asserts a regulatory status: every one carries "Not independently verified." That is an accurate statement of what has been checked, not a comment on any company.
Claims and evidence
Medical and clinical claims are never invented, strengthened, or extrapolated. The distinction between a documented fact, a vendor claim, and independent analysis is preserved in the writing, not blurred for readability.
High-consequence information favors authoritative primary sources. Vendor documentation establishes what a vendor says about its own product. It does not establish independent effectiveness.
Comparisons
Comparison content states its criteria, its sources, its date, and its limitations. This site publishes comparison criteria rather than product rankings, because a ranking manufactured to create a commercial landing page is the specific thing these standards exist to prevent.
No superlatives by default
No vendor is described as best, safest, most effective, recommended, superior, or clinically proven unless the statement is sourced and editorially justified. Directory inclusion carries none of those meanings.
AI assistance
AI is used in research, structuring, and drafting. It does not reduce the verification requirement for consequential healthcare claims, and the more consequential the claim, the stronger the requirement. Where something is uncertain, it is flagged rather than filled in.
Corrections
Send corrections through the contact form, naming the record and the field. A correction replacing a factual statement with a promotional one is published as a vendor-supplied statement and labeled accordingly.