- Advocating for Change: In a new article published in Supply Chain Magazine, GenPact's Urvashi Bhatnagar joins AMDR President and CEO Dan Vukelich in calling for healthcare staff - from workers to CEOs - to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their industry.
- Reviewing a Productive Year: 2022 was an excellent year for the medical device reprocessing industry. This week, AMDR remembers some of our favorite news and research articles.
- Winter 2022 Newsletter Coming Soon: In the last quarter of 2022, AMDR was proud to see new research and positive media coverage that helped to advance our industry's position. Read about these advances and more by subscribing to our quarterly Newsletter.
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Supply Chain Magazine: Healthcare CEOs must cut carbon from supply chains - GenPact
Healthcare workers should be leading the war on climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions caused by the health sector, particularly those caused by hospital supply chains, says GenPact’s Urvashi Bhatnagar, and Dan Vukelich of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors.
Year in Review - STAT Reports on 'Right to Repair' Movement, featuring Dan Vukelich
STAT: ‘Right to repair’ movement gains momentum in the tightly controlled world of medical devices
Repairs extend the lifespan of devices, preventing them from ending up in landfills which, in turn, keeps hospitals from having to purchase as much new equipment. “We have to give a critical look to this ‘take, make, waste’ or disposable culture and adopt more circular, more holistic, more financially and environmentally responsible solutions that extend the lifespan of products,” said Daniel Vukelich, president and CEO of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessing, a trade organization representing the industry that processes used devices so they can be used in care again.
Year in Review - STAT Reports on Healthcare's Climate Footprint, featuring Dan Vukelich
STAT: ‘If I were a hospital, I’d be reading the tea leaves’: Pressures grow on the health care industry to reduce its climate pollution
While hospitals might seem to be the unwitting victims of climate disasters, the U.S. health care system shoulders a good deal of the blame.
Year in Review - Environmental Costs of Medical Waste Explored in The Lancet
The Lancet: How medicine becomes trash: disposability in health care
A new momentum is growing to address medicine's oversized carbon footprint. Yet in many countries the movement to decarbonise health care remains in catch-up mode. The lagging position of medicine in the greening of industry is paradoxical when one considers the burden of illness related to climate change. Millions of preventable deaths per year are now attributed to the direct effects of anthropogenic climate change, with far worse to come in the near future. Reducing fossil-fuel energy use and developing lower-emissions supply chains, infrastructure, and care will have a role in decarbonising health care. But insufficient attention is paid to the health-care sector's use of disposable equipment, which has been regarded as a virtue, not a vice, for many decades.
Year in Review - Major U.S. Government Agency Recommends Reprocessing
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions: A Primer on Measures and Actions for Healthcare Organizations to Mitigate Climate Change
The Biden-Harris Administration has set clear goals for the country to cut greenhouse emissions (GHG) in half in the next 8 years, then move quickly to net zero before 2050, as outlined in the Federal Sustainability Plan. To support healthcare organizations in advancing toward their decarbonization commitments, AHRQ contracted with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to develop a primer that offers guidance on high-priority measures and strategies for healthcare organizations to reduce their carbon footprint.
Year in Review - Electrophysiology Specialists Speaks Strongly in Favor of Reprocessing
Health Care Business News: Enough is enough – We need our reprocessing savings
Reprocessed EP devices have been used successfully in the US for decades, with no impact on patient safety or procedures outcome. This practice has been adopted by all leading US hospitals, and a sophisticated industry of regulated reprocessors follow strict regulatory guidelines and device-by-device review requirements to be able to offer reprocessed devices. Financially, using reprocessed devices not only makes sense; it is an economic necessity for many EP labs. Using reprocessed devices in an AFib procedure (one of the most common, fastest growing, and most expensive EP procedures) can reduce device costs in a procedure by around $3,000. This can make the difference between whether the EP lab is profitable or not – or sometimes between whether an EP procedure is offered to a complicated patient, or not.
Year in Review - HCWH Calls for Govt. Leadership for Greener Healthcare, Including Reprocessing
Health Care Without Harm: Accelerating climate-smart transformation of U.S. health care: A federal-first approach
Health Care Without Harm [has] developed recommendations for federal health facilities on how to move toward low-carbon, sustainable operations and procurement and improve climate resilience and provide uninterrupted health care to the nation’s military and veterans... [F]ederal facilities can model the essential transformation of health care to align with the [Biden-Harris] administration’s climate goals and use their purchasing power to send important signals and shift the supply chain toward a more just, low-carbon economy.
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LinkedIn: ‘Right to repair’ movement gains momentum in the tightly controlled world of medical devices
Some medical device manufacturers insert microchips into electrosurgical devices and electrophysiologic catheters, limiting their use and shortening their lifespan without offering clinical benefits.
"Chipping" devices worsen medical supply chain shortages and spike waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Chipping makes reprocessing harder. Why not reduce cost, waste, and greenhouse gas emissions by making it easier to reprocess these devices?
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Modern Healthcare: $1.7T spending bill draws mostly praise from healthcare industry
The House of Representatives passed the $1.7 trillion spending bill Friday, which drew mixed reactions from healthcare industry associations.
Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News: Fluid Retention, Channel Shredding Common in GI Scopes
New research using borescope examination has found significant fluid retention and channel shredding in a majority of reviewed scopes, according to a study presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. "We found moisture in almost every GI scope, except those that were sent for sterilization as part of reprocessing," Dr. Yassin told Priority Report. "That is a cause for concern because of the possibility that [a scope] may harbor gram-negative bacteria."
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