Practice GreenHealth Reports that Hospitals Boost Sustainability Efforts, Reduce Environmental Impact
PracticeGreenhealth's e-news reports that the healthcare industry is rife with opportunities to reduce the environmental impact it creates, with the added benefit of saving money as well. Citing an article from Infection Control Today, PGH
Creating a New Normal with "Green" Medicine
MDNews.com reports on findings presented at the Baltimore CleanMed conference. Medical device reprocessing is highlighted as one of the top five strategies to go green in the operating room. To combat the waste of SUDs
Medical Device Network: US Regulator to Unveil Medical Device ID Rule
Medicaldevicenetwork.com reports that the US FDA is set to soon introduce its long-anticipated proposed rules for unique device identification (UDI). MDN expects FDA's proposal to be released in September, 2011. Under the proposed rule, medical
ICT: AAMI Announces Medical Devices Summit in October
Originally posted by Infection Control Today: The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) invite members of the medical community to participate in a special summit focusing on critical
SSM Health Care – St. Louis achieves significant savings with medical device reprocessing
SSM Health Care-St. Louis Released on June 30, 2011 AIDS and emerging infectious diseases led in the early 1980s to single-use medical devices. However, there is a rising medical awareness in the United States that
CMAJ: The Ethics of Reusing Single-Use Device
Canadian Medical Association Journal Published by Roger Collier July 5, 2011 The topic of reprocessing medical devices labelled as single-use items is something of an ethical quagmire. The only thing clear about this issue, it