In the Press
December 2022
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 [...]
20 Minute Leaders Presents: Daniel Vukelich
Michael Matias of the 20 Minute Leaders podcast sits down with AMDR President and CEO Daniel Vukelich to discuss the feats and importance of the [...]
Medical Xpress: Researchers call for mandatory emissions reporting from US health care organizations
As climate change continues to impact our world, more industries are looking for solutions to lower carbon emissions, and the health care system is no [...]
STAT: ‘Right to repair’ movement gains momentum in the tightly controlled world of medical devices
The Covid-19 pandemic crystallized a problem that has long plagued hospitals and biomedical engineers: many can’t maintain or repair their machines without the green light [...]
November 2022
The Journal of Healthcare Contracting: Building Resiliency – A new nonprofit healthcare supply chain association aims to champion standards and best practices.
From Jesse Schafer’s vantage point as a senior manager of business continuity at the Mayo Clinic, supply chain resiliency is keenly needed in healthcare. “It’s [...]
Medical Design & Outsourcing: Cardinal Health expands single-use device reprocessing facility
“Sustainable Technologies is a unique growth business within Cardinal Health,” Global Planning SVP Pete Bennett said in a news release. “Our investment in this expansion [...]
Modern Healthcare: 5 things HHS says hospitals can do to reduce emissions
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has tips for how healthcare organizations can cut emissions and achieve net-zero operations by 2050. The Health and [...]
FDA Needs To Undo Incentives For Single-Use Products, Device Reprocessing Expert Says
Medtech Insight sat down with Dan Vukelich, president and CEO of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors, to discuss the need for sustainable alternatives to limit [...]
Mass Climate Action Network: Helping Hospitals Reduce their Carbon Pollution
Medical care in the US generates a lot of carbon pollution. Part of this pollution comes from the manufacture of very sophisticated and expensive ‘one-use-only’ [...]
Healthcare Purchasing News: HHS and NHS aligning to tackle emissions in healthcare
At a COP27 event, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) delegation announced a joint plan with the National Health Service (NHS) of [...]
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: HHS Shares Health Sector Emissions Reduction and Climate Resilience Announcements at COP27
A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) delegation to the United Nations Climate Conference (COP27) announced that more than 100 health care organizations [...]
October 2022
Medical Device Reprocessing Industry’s Green Servitization Model Provides Better Value for Hospitals, Lowers Carbon Footprint and Costs, Among Findings in Recently Published Study
[October 31, 2022 // Washington, DC and Berlin] A new study, published in the Journal Sustainability, provides the first detailed analysis of the trend toward [...]
MedCity News: Reprocessing beyond cost savings: Growing supply chain resilience
Supply chain resilience has become a key concept in healthcare today. This is because the pandemic (and the post-pandemic) realities of securing necessary supplies have [...]
The Lancet: How medicine becomes trash: disposability in health care
A new momentum is growing to address medicine's oversized carbon footprint. Yet in many countries the movement to decarbonise health care remains in catch-up mode. [...]
Healthcare Purchasing News: Global commitment to climate resiliency of healthcare facilities
The World Health Organization (WHO) and over 20 leaders from governments and international organizations agreed and called for action to increase climate resilience of health-care [...]
Circular Online: Circular economy project launched to tackle digital health waste
The Digital Health in a Circular Economy (DiCE) project, led by Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, aims to address the issue of increasing digital health waste. DiCE [...]
International Finance Corporation: Circular Economy: A Greener Medical Device Industry & Better
In the first webisode, Daniel J. Vukelich, President of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessing, will outline the need for hospitals to extend the life [...]
September 2022
HHS Report to Hospitals: Over Reliance on “Single-Use” Medical Devices Leads to Supply Chain Disruptions/Greater Emissions; Reprocessing among Solutions Noted to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Health Sector
[Washington, D.C. -- 27 September, 2022] A new report from The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), issued by the Agency for Healthcare [...]
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment: Environmental Footprint of Regular and Intensive Inpatient Care in a Large US Hospital
Abstract Purpose Environmental sustainability is a growing concern to healthcare providers, given the health impacts of climate change and air pollution, and the sizable footprint [...]
Healthcare Purchasing News: AHRQ releases primer targeting healthcare’s carbon footprint
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), today released a primer to help healthcare [...]