Blog
December 2018
AMDR launches December 2018 Newsletter
AMDR's latest newsletter was sent out early December. We hope you enjoyed reading it! In our newsletter you can find a lot of the articles [...]
AMDR’s Dan Vukelich to speak at EORNA Congress 2019
This upcoming May, AMDR's Dan Vukelich will be speaking at EORNA(European Operating Room Nurses Association) Congress in The Netherlands. Dan will be talking about the [...]
Use of Reprocessed External Fixators in Orthopaedic Surgery: a Survey of 243 Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeons
The latest research as published in Patient Safety in Surgery (2018) addresses “Use of Reprocessed External Fixators in Orthopaedic Surgery: a Survey of 243 Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeons.” [...]
November 2018
AMDR Holds 20th Annual Board Meeting
This past Wednesday, AMDR hosted its 20th annual board meeting! We wanted to thank all of our board members and participants for coming to DC [...]
October 2018
Low Hanging Fruit
HealthLeaders Media reports that while the “shift to a value-based healthcare system is showing positive results . . . . the low hanging fruit has [...]
Real Reason US Spends Twice as Much on Healthcare
Earlier this year, the Washington Post reported on The Real Reason the U.S. Spends Twice as Much on Health Care as Other Wealthy Countries. In [...]
Amazon Entering Healthcare and Disruption — Lessons from Reprocessing in an Entrenched Supply Chain
Much attention has been given to the announcement that Amazon would jump into the healthcare supply market. Amazon, with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan, intend to [...]
CleanMed Europe 2018 Wraps Up
AMDR's Dan Vukelich participated and spoke this week in Nijmegen, Netherlands as part of CleanMed Europe 2018. Radbound University Medical Center and the city of [...]
Operating Room Greening Initiatives – The Old, the New, and the Way Forward: A Narrative Review
Waste Management & Research, official Journal of the International Solid Waste Association, includes a peer-reviewed article this last month on Greening the OR. Written about Australia, [...]
Not-for-Profit Hospitals Cost-Cutting Isn’t Keeping Up with Revenue Decline
Modern Healthcare reports that not-for-profit hospitals “have begun to rein in expenses, but it’s not happening as fast as revenue growth is dropping.” The article [...]
EU aims to abolish planned obsolescence
The European Union is looking into “planned obsolescence.” Specifically, the European Parliament is asking the European Commission to “create a clear definition of the term [...]
Hospitals Launch Their Own Competition to Generics Drugs – Implications for Devices
In the last month, the healthcare trade press focused on an ongoing spat between the drug industry and America’s hospitals over who is to blame [...]
September 2018
It’s Time to Clinically Integrate Supply Chain Into Healthcare Reform
Dee Donatelli writes in this month’s Healthcare Purchasing News about integrating supply chain into the move toward clinical integration. “Clinical integration differs from traditional value [...]
May 2018
FDA names drugmakers potentially acting to delay cheap generics
Reuters reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) listed a number of pharmaceutical companies that it believes could be "blocking access to their [...]
NPR Story Addresses “Sticker Shock” for Medical Device Prices
In an NPR Your Health report heard on Morning Edition Tuesday, Liz Szabo discussed medical device prices and their contribution to escalating healthcare costs. The story [...]
South Africa Taking Steps to Advance Reprocessing
In December, 2017, the South African Department of Health issued a long-awaited regulation on medical devices. In it, the reprocessing or repackaging of medical devices [...]
Anti-Reprocessing Efforts Heat Up as Some OEMs Attempt to Thwart Hospital Savings
At AMDR we are committed to the ways in which reprocessing can bring about savings to a healthcare system in need of solutions. Reprocessing of [...]
April 2018
Taking the WASTE Out of Healthcare
Earlier this year, ProPublica’s Marshall Allen wrote a commentary in the Washington Post, Want to Cut Health Care Costs? Start with the obscene amount of [...]
As Hospital Profit Margins Fall, Reprocessing Helps Lower Costs
A new Wall Street Journal article is reporting on the financial pressures on the rise for U.S. hospitals due in part to increasing labor costs [...]
Healthcare Innovation Caucus Seeks to Improve Quality of Care, Lower Costs
The Association of Medical Device Reprocessors, AMDR, congratulates members of the new Bipartisan Health Care Innovation Caucus. The March 15 announcement regarding the creation of [...]