In the Press
September 2018
Restrictive Innovation: How Medical Device Manufacturers Confound Clinical Excellence
An Industry Example: Medical Device Reprocessing Reprocessing had a huge mention in Forbes. The unnecessary and rapid launch of “new and improved” products designed to confound [...]
Vanguard AG Completes Takeover of Pioneer Medical Devices AG
AMDR congratulates member company Vanguard AG in completing its acquisition of Pioneer Medical. AMDR's translation to English of portions of release. For full release, see [...]
August 2018
AMDR Member Stryker Named 25 on Fortune Magazine’s Top 57 Companies Changing the World
AMDR congratulates member-company, Stryker, for its inclusion in Fortune Magazine’s top 57 companies changing the world! The Change the World list recognizes companies that have had [...]
A profitable prescription: More US hospitals are going green to keep them out of the red
USAToday reports on how US hospitals are going green in order to keep them afloat. "The health care sector — one of the nation’s largest [...]
95 percent of U.S. News & World Report’s ‘Honor Roll’ hospitals are reprocessing with one of AMDR’s member companies
The release of the new U.S. News & World Report list of America’s “honor roll” hospitals confirms that 95% of America’s top hospitals are reprocessing [...]
Healthcare Purchasing News and the Greenhealth Exchange announce the inaugural Sustainability in Healthcare Supply Chain Survey
"Greenhealth Exchange (GX) and Healthcare Purchasing News (HPN) announced today the Sustainability in Healthcare Supply Chain Survey. The survey will be issued for responses on August 20, [...]
Making a hole in medical waste
The Nation discusses ways to repurpose spent medical materials in this riveting article. "RECYCLING and its close cousin upcycling have caught in recent years but here [...]
Aramark pledges reduction in single-use plastics
The Greenerpackage reports about Aramark's efforts to reduce single use plastics. "The foodservice management company is the latest to disavow single-use plastics, committing to significantly [...]
July 2018
Continued push to value-based care the key to lower healthcare costs, experts tell legislators
Fierce Healthcare writes about the importance of the push of value-based care and it's relation to lower healthcare costs. “Policymakers looking to lower healthcare costs must [...]
Arjo acquires ReNu Medical – a green medical reprocessor of single use medical devices
Dotmed discusses the merger between Arjo and ReNu Medical, a green medical reprocessor of single use medical devices. "Arjo, a market-leading supplier of medical devices and [...]
Through environmental stewardship, hospitals can preserve and protect health
Greenbiz reports about how hospitals can protect health through environmental stewardship. “For Englewood, Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), one of the nation’s largest nonprofit, [...]
Hospitals ‘can’t afford not to’ provide value-based care
Modern Healthcare reports on how hospitals can no longer afford not to provide value based care. "The calls for health systems to ditch fee-for-service [...]
June 2018
Commentary: Value in healthcare remains an imperative; it’s just the matter of how we get there
Modern Healthcare discussing the value in healthcare. But how do we get there? “…Value, as a principle, remains as solid as ever. In fact, it's [...]
Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?
The Harvard Business Review reports about a revolutionary new hospital. "There was a time when the American steel industry seemed invincible. The American automotive [...]
Reprocessed Medical Devices Market To Witness Huge Growth Due To Rising Requirement For Reduction In Medical Waste Till 2022: Grand View Research, Inc.
The Digital Journal reported on the expected growth of the reprocessed medical device market. According to report published by Grand View Research, the global [...]
Healthcare costs increasing at unsustainable pace
Modern HealthCare reports on the increasing costs of healthcare. "The expected 6% growth in 2019 aligns with the 5.5% to 7% trend over the past [...]
How University of Washington Medical Center improved supply chain efficiency and saved $1M+
Becker's Hospital Review reports on the partnership between the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle and Stryker's Sustainability Solutions division to save on medical device [...]
AMDR President Selected to Speak at 2018 CleanMed Europe
AMDR is proud to announce that Dan Vukelich has been selected to speak on medical device reprocessing at the 2018 CleanMed Europe meeting in Nijmegen, [...]
Beware: Anti-Reprocessing Tactics
Today, AMDR released an alert to hospitals and healthcare facilities advising of certain sales tactics which may undermine reprocessing programs. In spite of the economic pressure facing hospitals [...]
Reprocessed Medical Devices Market is Rising to a Valuation of US$3.35 bn in 2024, Says TMR
PRNewswire reports on how reprocessed medical devices market is rising to new heights. “As per the TMR report, the global reprocessed medical devices market is likely to [...]