In the Press
September 2022
BSI Standards: Towards Net Zero – Transition to Net Zero in the Healthcare Sector
Date: 22 September 2022 Time: (11:45 - 13:10 UK time) What’s this webinar about? The health and care system in England is responsible for an [...]
Ways & Means Committee: Following Request for Information, New Ways and Means Report Examines the U.S. Health System’s Role in the Climate Crisis
WASHINGTON, DC—The Ways and Means Committee releaseda new report detailing the role the U.S. health system plays in the climate crisis. After issuing a request for information back [...]
Yale Center on Climate Change and Health: Dr. Jodi Sherman to participate in Congressional hearing on America’s health care infrastructure
Dr. Jodi Sherman, Director of the Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability, is among the invited experts asked to participate in the House Committee on [...]
AAMI ARRAY: ST98: New Standard in Medical Device Cleaning Spotlights ‘Clean’ for Manufacturers
When it comes to processing multi-use medical devices, sterilization often gets the splashy headlines, but cleaning is just as—if not more—important, and with ANSI/AAMI ST98:2022, [...]
Oxford Academic: Sustainability Prize 3 Surgeons’ Awareness and Opinions on Sustainability in Surgery: The ECOS-Surgery Global Survey
Abstract Aims Healthcare is one of the largest waste-generating activities contributing to climate change, with surgery the most energy-intense sector. This international survey aimed to [...]
August 2022
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Pub Med: Current Practices and Expectations to Reduce Environmental Impact of Electrophysiology Catheters: Results From an EHRA/LIRYC European Physician Survey GalleryPub Med: Current Practices and Expectations to Reduce Environmental Impact of Electrophysiology Catheters: Results From an EHRA/LIRYC European Physician Survey
Pub Med: Current Practices and Expectations to Reduce Environmental Impact of Electrophysiology Catheters: Results From an EHRA/LIRYC European Physician Survey
The healthcare sector accounts for nearly 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and is a significant contributor to complex waste. Reducing the environmental impact [...]
AAMI: ST98: New Standard in Medical Device Cleaning Spotlights ‘Clean’ for Manufacturers
When it comes to processing multi-use medical devices, sterilization often gets the splashy headlines, but cleaning is just as—if not more—important, and with ANSI/AAMI ST98:2022, [...]
Health Care Business News: Closing Information Gaps for More Sustainable Healthcare
Two global disasters have had a devastating impact on U.S. hospitals. The COVID-19 pandemic and its high costs and stress on the supply chain, combined [...]
Health Care Without Harm: Designing a Net Zero Roadmap for Healthcare: Technical Methodology and Guidance
Since the industrial revolution, anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have risen dramatically. As the most significant contributory factor to our changing climate, these gases have [...]
New book: The Sustainability Scorecard: How to Implement and Profit from Unexpected Solutions
Using a rigorous, straightforward scorecard as a guide, this book shows business leaders and innovators how to create breakthrough sustainable products and processes that are [...]
Modern Healthcare: Healthcare is Dirty. There’s Still Time to Clean it up.
At Boston Medical Center, a 2,700-square-foot rooftop farm produces more than three tons of vegetables each year. The U.S. healthcare system emits the same amount [...]
DAIC: Post-Pandemic, the Conversations Have Lost Relevance
Hospitals in the U.S. are suffering under a debilitating post-pandemic financial and operational trauma. Ascension posted an almost $900 million loss in Q1 of 2022, down [...]
July 2022
The American Journal of Gastroenterology: Climate Change and Gastroenterology: Planetary Primum Non Nocere and How Industry Must Help
Climate change is a global emergency. Increasing awareness has led to policy changes regarding global industry emissions. The healthcare industry carbon footprint is large and [...]
AMDR Comments to FDA; Virtual Public Workshop – Building Medical Device Supply Chain Resilience
Dear Dr. Beckham: The Association of Medical Device Reprocessors (AMDR) sincerely thanks FDA for including the medical device reprocessing industry as a collaborator in the [...]
Aneel Bhangu: Surgical energy devices in the #NHS – time for ‘value surgery’?
Four known facts: 1. Most surgeons either don't know the cost of the equipment they use or work in systems with vastly differing costs. Our [...]
Free Workshop: Remanufacturing: A Solution for Business Resilience to Supply Chain Disruption?
With many businesses affected by disruption to supply chain, it can be argued that now is the perfect time for remanufacturing sceptics to take the [...]
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH): The Public Health Crisis Is Planetary—and Nursing Is Crucial to Addressing It
. . . Global nursing organizations have called for significant action on climate change and other issues that threaten planetary health. Some organizations are leading [...]
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Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency: Government response to consultation on the future regulation of medical devices in the United Kingdom GalleryMedicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency: Government response to consultation on the future regulation of medical devices in the United Kingdom
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency: Government response to consultation on the future regulation of medical devices in the United Kingdom
67.2 The government response After careful consideration of responses, it remains the government’s intention to proceed with proposals to regulate the re-manufacturing of single-use devices, [...]
The White House: FACT SHEET: Health Sector Leaders Join Biden Administration’s Pledge to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions 50% by 2030
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that 61 of the largest U.S. hospital and health sector companies responded to the Administration’s Health Sector Climate Pledge, committing to [...]
HHS: Biden-Harris Administration catalyzes private health sector commitments to reduce climate impacts and protect public health
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing how President Biden’s leadership on climate change is catalyzing private health sector commitments to reduce greenhouse gas [...]