FDA: FDA-Track: Agency-wide Program Performance
AMDR commends FDA for its FDA-Track inititive: FDA-TRACK is a new agency-wide program performance management system that monitors over 100 FDA program offices through key performance measures. These measures are developed by the program offices across
Dotmedbusiness News: Disposables Losing Their Grip?
The April issue of Dotmedbusiness News includes an article by Olga Deshchenko, Disposables Losing Their Grip? In it, Ms. Deshchenko writes …the reprocessing of single ue devices is also a growing trend among many hospitals. Aside from
Infection Control Today: Reprocessing Highlighted as a Key Strategy for Greening the OR at Healthcare Symposium
Infection Control Today: Reprocessing Highlighted as a Key Strategy for Greening the OR at Healthcare Symposium: Ascent, a leader in delivering healthcare resource sustainability, announces its sponsorship of a new initiative from Practice Greenhealth. The
New England Journal of Medicine: Modernizing Device Regulation
Dr. Alan M. Garber writes about Modernizing Device Regulation in the New England Journal of Medicine: Medical devices hold tremendous potential for both good and harm. A modernized and more appropriate approach to their regulation
Hospital Management: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Reprocessing Medical Devices
Reprocessing medical devices has always been a part of the medical-device life cycle, in both the developed and the developing economies of the world. While it has now transformed into an important, cost-saving, sophisticated process
The New York Times: Now Comes the Hard Part
The New York Times, in a Jonathan Cohn Op-ed, Now Comes the Hard Part, writes (03/26/10): BENDING THE CURVE Dozens of new initiatives are intended to control, or at least reduce, the cost of medical