- Adapting to the New Reality: The FDA announced the Resilient Supply Chain Program to "reduce future supply chain shortages by applying lessons learned during the pandemic."
- Advice for Health Systems: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released broad suggestions for how health systems can reduce emissions, including in the medical device supply chain.
- Expert Insights: A new article in Healthcare Purchasing News discusses best operational practices for medical device manufacturers and central sterile to enhance the service life of their products.
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Medtech Insight: FDA Introduces ‘Proactive‘ Resilient Supply Chain Program To Reduce Future Device Shortages
The US FDA’s Resilient Supply Chain Program (RSCP) will be housed in the agency’s Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation and aims to reduce future supply chain shortages by applying lessons learned during the pandemic.
Modern Healthcare: 5 things HHS says hospitals can do to reduce emissions
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality advises healthcare organizations to tackle emissions from transportation, food and the supply chain.
Healthcare Purchasing News: Sterile Processing Insights - Understanding your P’s, Q’s, and S’s in instrument care & handling
Taking care of one of the medical facility’s greatest investments, medical devices used in surgery (surgical instruments)...and working with your various manufacturers is important to make them last as long as possible. Staff needs to remember “inspect to prevent” at each stage of the medical device reprocessing cycle.
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LinkedIn: Happy Thanksgiving!
As many of us celebrate #Thanksgiving this week and look ahead to the holiday season, #AMDR joins public health and medicine leaders to salute courageous #healthcareworkers everywhere who serve global populations and keep communities healthy.
Together we say THANK YOU!
LinkedIn: FDA Introduces ‘Proactive‘ Resilient Supply Chain Program To Reduce Future Device Shortages
Reprocessing "single-use" medical devices help #hospitals fight climate change by reducing #ghgemissions and gives them an easy way to save costs while building a more robust, sustainable global supply chain.
AMDR's Daniel J. Vukelich, Esq., CAE, believes the time is now for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand reprocessing. Learn about the urgent need to undo regulatory incentives against it and advance the goals of the Biden Administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to achieve "net zero emissions" by 2050, as outlined in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's recent primer.
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MedTech Dive: Medtronic lowers full-year forecast, citing drop in procedure growth
A slower-than-expected recovery in certain procedures, including TAVR and spinal cord stimulation, curbed quarterly profit and revenue.
repertoire: How larger tech companies can help to reshape US healthcare in the coming years
Big Tech has had a surprisingly small impact on US healthcare, so far. Artificial intelligence, for example, outperforms physicians in many complex tasks (like reading mammograms and analyzing chest X-rays), yet AI remains woefully underused. Meanwhile, many have tried to spur operational efficiency using big-data analytics, but care delivery remains as…
Healthcare Purchasing News: Premier urging Congress to continue relief for providers as session nears end
Premier sent a letter to Congressional leaders calling on Congress to protect patient access to care by addressing the intense financial pressures facing providers and several pending end-of-year payment cuts that threaten providers’ ability to remain operational across the country. Underscoring the...
MedTech Dive: Q3 Earnings Wrap: Bumpy time for medtech with inflation, FX, supply woes
Macroeconomic pressures were a persistent theme for the industry, with workforce reductions a part of the fallout for some companies.
STAT: ‘Digital health is late to the party’: Can telehealth help curb mitigate their carbon footprints?
Telehealth has been held up as a prime strategy to cut down on carbon emissions from the health care systems. But it comes with trade-offs.
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