The White House: Biden-Harris Administration Releases New Guidance to Disclose Climate Impacts in Environmental Reviews
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) today released updated Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change to help Federal agencies better assess and disclose climate impacts as they conduct environmental reviews, delivering more certainty
Annual Review of Public Health: Sustainable and Resilient Health Care in the Face of a Changing Climate
Climate change is a threat multiplier, exacerbating underlying vulnerabilities, worsening human health, and disrupting health systems’ abilities to deliver high-quality continuous care. This review synthesizes the evidence of what the health care sector can do
PLOS ONE: Stakeholder perspectives on scaling up medical device reprocessing: A qualitative study
The United States health care sector is one of the largest polluting industries, which has significant adverse effects on human health. Medical device reprocessing (MDR) is a sustainability solution that has the potential to decrease
Medtech Insight: Outlook 2023: The Regulatory Path Ahead
Because 60% to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions from hospitals come from the supply chain, “low-hanging fruit” solutions such as programs to reprocess medical devices labeled for single-use will continue to grow substantially. Supply chain
Supply Chain Digital: Healthcare CEOs must cut carbon from supply chains – Genpact
GenPact’s Urvashi Bhatnagar, and Dan Vukelich of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors, on why the healthcare sector need to cut Co2. When published studies found that smoking clearly caused cancer, many physicians went from
Processes: Assessing Long-Term Medical Remanufacturing Emissions with Life Cycle Analysis
The unsustainable take-make-dispose linear economy prevalent in healthcare contributes 4.4% to global Greenhouse Gas emissions. A popular but not yet widely-embraced solution is to remanufacture common single-use medical devices like electrophysiology catheters, significantly extending their