In the Press
July 2020
The Green Print: Advancement of Environmental Sustainability in Healthcare
Healthcare pollution is a public health crisis. Learn how single-use medical device reprocessing can be part of the solution to help reduce emissions, save resources, [...]
Managed Healthcare: An Urgent Call to Reduce and Reuse Hospital Supplies for Stronger Financial, Environmental and Clinical Sustainability
Now is the time to take serious action to reform wasteful hospital practices and strengthen the healthcare supply chain. The high cost of American healthcare [...]
Healthcare Business News: Hitting the reset button on supply chain strategies
…Following CDC guidelines, conservation efforts were also made by healthcare workers to keep N95 masks functioning longer, which reduced daily consumption by more than 50 [...]
Remanufacturing Association Alliance Announces the Addition of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors
West Henrietta, New York – July 28, 2020 – The Remanufacturing Industries Council is pleased to announce the addition of the Association of Medical Device [...]
Our Members Medline Renewal and Innovative Health in the News
From Medline Renewal: KTVZ: Onward: Four big Redmond businesses expanding amid recession, pandemic Congrats to AMDR member, Medline ReNewal, on their expansion plans. Green, American, [...]
Healthcare Business Today: EP Procedures as a Profit or Loss Driver
Reprocessing May Tilt the Scales Electrophysiology (EP) procedures to treat patients with Atrial Fibrillation are among the fastest growing procedures in the United States. Changing [...]
Fierce Healthcare: AHA: Half of U.S. hospitals could be operating in the red by end of year
A new report from the hospital industry predicts half of all U.S. hospitals will be operating in the red by the end of the year [...]
AMDR filed comments to the European Commission’s Inception Impact Assessment on Waste Shipment Regulations
AMDR appreciates the Commission’s communication on a European Green Deal and efforts to mobilize industry for a clean and circular economy. Solutions like medical device [...]
Health Care Business News: Supply chain lessons emerging from the coronavirus pandemic
How hospitals can reduce costs and better control their supply chain will be particularly relevant as administrators and clinicians prepare for the reopening of service [...]
Catheter Ablation Technology and the Circular Economy
Catheter ablation is one of the fastest growing service lines in U.S. healthcare. More and more patients are diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AFib) and similar [...]
AMDR Files Amicus Brief with Supreme Court in Van Buren vs. US.
AMDR urges the court to affirm the right of hospitals and healthcare providers to repair and reprocess the medical equipment they own, without fear of [...]
MEDICA Magazine: Hospitals go green – helping patients and Mother Nature
Each day, a hospital consumes as much energy as a small city. Medical facilities work around the clock to provide excellent patient care. Environmental protection [...]
June 2020
Northeast Scientific Inc. wins 510(k) for IVUS Catheter reprocessing
Northeast Scientific Inc., this week announced it has received FDA clearance for reprocessing the .014 Digital IVUS catheter. This is the second 510(k) the Connecticut [...]
HPN: #IAmThe HealthcareSupplyChain movement advocates for healthcare supply chain future
Over 200 healthcare organizations have pledged their support of the #IAmTheHealthcareSupplyChain movement, which advocates for the investment, collaboration, promotion and the elevation of the healthcare [...]
The Economist: Sea of troubles Covid-19 has led to a pandemic of plastic pollution
THE THAMES has always been a reflector of the times, says Lara Maiklem, a London “mudlark”. Ms Maiklem spends her days on the river’s foreshore [...]
EP Lab Digest: U.S. EP Labs Losing $500 Million Each Year Due to Underutilized Reprocessing Programs
An eye-opening article in EP Lab Digest finds that (EP) labs are missing out on an estimated $500 million in savings each year due to [...]
HPN: FDA reissues EAU revising which types of respirators can be decontaminated for reuse
In response to public health and safety concerns about the appropriateness of decontaminating certain respirators, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reissuing certain [...]
Stryker’s N95 Mask Decontaminator Gets Emergency Use Authorization
The FDA has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Stryker Sustainability Solutions’ decontamination system for N95 respirators, allowing its use by healthcare staff. The [...]
Practice Greenhealth: Resourceful PPE strategies bridged the gap, now hospitals seek sustainable solutions
As supplies of personal protective equipment dwindled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals across the country were innovative and resourceful. Practice Greenhealth member University of [...]
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 [...]