What Hospitals Buy Matters to Health
Sustainability leaders and health care supply chain professionals are coming together at CleanMed May 7-9 in Nashville to advance strategies and solutions in buying sustainably to ensure improvements in health.Hear from leaders who are driving
Doctors are frightened by climate change. Their industry is a big part of the problem.
Vox notes that a recent New England Journal of Medicine commentary argues that it’s “high time” to tackle climate change in healthcare. Hospitals in the US alone “produce about a pound of hazardous medical waste
Greener Healthcare: Strategies for Sustainable Surgical Units
The Environmental Magazine discussing reprocessing in its article, “Greener Healthcare: Strategies for Sustainable Surgical Units” January 11, 2019: Single-use devices (SUDs) make up a sizable percentage of many medical facilities’ waste. Yet facilities can recycle
Climate change: ‘Right to repair’ gathers force
You can’t repair it and can’t find anyone else to at a decent price, so it joins the global mountain of junk.You’re forced to buy a replacement, which fuels climate change from the greenhouse gases
Should Economic Criteria be Included in Medical Device Trials?
In an age when everything in medicine is now looked at though a cost vs. benefit analysis and U.S. government healthcare reform efforts focused on cutting costs, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has
U.S. spends far more on healthcare than other developed countries—and researchers say prices are still to blame
And that extra spending isn’t translating to better access to care, the researchers found. The U.S. had 18% fewer practicing doctors per 1,000 people than the OECD median in 2015, and the nurse-to-population ratio was