Ecoglove.com, Re-Using Equipment Could Help Hopsitals Go Green (03/02/10):  U.S. health care facilities generate over four billion pounds of waste each year, second only to the food industry in trash-making. But much of this waste

DotMed News: Ascent Takes on Bi-Directional Catheters for Reprocessing (06/07/10): Ascent, formerly Ascent Healthcare Solutions, recently added yet another single-use device (SUD) to its repertoire of about 90 reprocessed medical devices. The EZ STEER bi-directional

Ambulatory Quality and Compliance Insider reports: SUD Reprocessing: Balancing Cost Savings, Patient Safety (07/01/10): During a time when hospitals are continually searching for a way to reduce costs while maintaining or even increasing their focus

American Chronicle, Save Your Money With Reprocessing of Single Used Disposable Medical Devices (05/28/10): The most exciting fact that may surprise you is if all the single use disposable medical devices are reprocessed in US,

Modern Physician, Tying payment, quality and care with bundling (05/24/10): Bundling payments to hospitals and doctors for episodes of care is gaining momentum in the federal government and in the private sector as a way

Gerson Lehrman Group: The FDA's 510k clearance process (If it ain't broke don't fix it)!  (05/23/10): Now,with the widespread acceptance of the Reprocessing Industry, used to reduce procedure costs to hospitals for the outsourcing of so-called