In the Press
May 2020
Health Care Without Harm: Safer medical devices – in transition for another year
Healthcare professionals rely on medical devices to treat their patients and safeguard their health, yet delays to regulation restrict their access to safer technologies. In [...]
Sustainable Technologies™, a Cardinal Health Business, in Partnership with Battelle
N95 Respirator Mask decontamination AMDR-member Sustainable Technologies™, a Cardinal Health business, is collaborating with Battelle to provide an end-to-end solution for collecting, decontaminating and returning [...]
AMDR Statement – Device Collections and COVID-19
As hospitals begin to reopen to elective procedures, the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors (AMDR) is pleased that all its members are fully operational. Single-use [...]
What is a pulse oximeter, and does the coronavirus pandemic mean you need one?
Before the coronavirus pandemic, most Americans had heard about pulse oximeters only via TV shows where EMTs shout out a patient’s “pulse ox” — or measure [...]
Right-to-Repair Groups Fire Shots at Medical Device Manufacturers
THE WEBSITE IFIXIT has long been known for its electronics repair kits and for its very public stance that repair manuals should be accessible to everyone. That’s one of the [...]
Covid, Climate Change, and Medical Supply Chain Resiliency: A Q&A with Professor Jodi Sherman, MD
The US healthcare system’s reliance on a global supply chain and just-in-time delivery has been good for the bottom line. However, critical shortages of personal [...]
April 2020
European Commission: Medical Devices Regulation: Commission welcomes Council support to prioritise the fight against coronavirus
The European Commission welcomes the adoption by the European Parliament and the Council of the proposal to postpone by one year the date of application [...]
Stronger action on climate change would benefit the economy, study finds
One of the main arguments against taking action on climate change has always been that it's too expensive. But new research finds just the opposite: We can't [...]
ChicagoBusiness: Medline resumes ethylene oxide operations, plans to resterilize used N95 masks
Medline Industries is pursuing FDA approval of a plan to resterilize hundreds of thousands of health care workers’ face masks now that sterilization services are back online [...]
AMDR Statement On COVID-19 Response
For over 20 years, AMDR-member reprocessors have played an essential role in providing hospitals with FDA-regulated or CE marked, clean, disinfected and sterile medical devices. [...]
Health Care Without Harm: Health care waste management: Coronavirus update
Health Care Without Harm's experts prepared a comprehensive document with the latest information and recommendations on how to address waste management in a coronavirus context. [...]
Boston Globe: Curing hospitals’ addiction to the fossil fuels that make people sick
It’s noisy in the building systems control room at Boston Medical Center, the largest safety-net hospital and busiest emergency services operation in New England. Computers [...]
March 2020
MIC.com: Coronavirus is creating a staggering amount of medical waste
Hospitals around the world are doing everything in their power to protect the publicagainst the coronavirus pandemic. You've likely seen the calls for more personal protective [...]
MedTechDive: EU regulators to propose 1-year MDR delay
The European Commission is working on a proposal to delay enforcement of the EU Medical Device Regulation by one year, a spokesperson said Wednesday. Policymakers are aiming [...]
Medica: Recyclable face masks to better protect against corona
Wearing a face mask is a common sight in Korea during the COVID-19 outbreak. Due to the overwhelming demand, last week the government started to [...]
RAPS: FDA to Implement All COVID-19-Related Guidance Immediately, Without Public Comment
In light of the need to act quickly and efficiently to respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [...]
The man behind NZ’s sustainable healthcare start-up talks business
His idea to reprocess used medical devices is already helping reduce waste in the New Zealand healthcare sector. Now Oliver Hunt of Medsalv discusses plans [...]
January 2020
Reprocessed Medical Devices Market Size is Anticipated to Reach a Valuation of $5 Billion by 2022: Grand View Research, Inc.
Grand View Research, Inc. estimates that the global reprocessed medical devices market is expected to reach USD 5.0 billion by 2022. Increased generation of medical [...]
The EU Ushers in New Era in Reprocessing and Remanufacturing of Medical Devices Labelled for “Single Use”
Looking to understand the new EU rules for medical devices (“EU MDR”)? Check out the European Commission’s “Fact Sheet for Healthcare Professionals and Health Institutions.” [...]
Medline ReNewal: What Medical Device Reprocessing Looks Like Today
The medical device reprocessing industry assists healthcare organizations in achieving their financial and sustainability goals by reprocessing and remanufacturing medical devices for reuse through a [...]