January 2023
Healthcare Purchasing News: Mission Improcessable – Economy, ecology and efficacy demand a combination of resources and contingencies for all
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out a strategy in which we can ensure that our hospital is functioning at
Medical Plastics News: How can we make the medical sector more sustainable?
The pandemic heightened everyone’s awareness of the impact the medical and healthcare sectors have on the environment, and the carbon emissions that arise from single-use
Omnia Health: Greentech solutions propel the medical devices industry
The medical device industry still has a long way to go when it comes to 'going green', but a wave of change is underway with
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
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
December 2022
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)
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
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
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
Nature Reviews Cardiology: Environmental sustainability in cardiology: reducing the carbon footprint of the catheterization laboratory
After 40 years of spectacular technological innovation, catheter ablation has become central to the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, revolutionizing patient care but with no consideration
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
The Lancet: HealthcareLCA: an open-access living database of health-care environmental impact assessments
Anthropogenic environmental change negatively effects human health and is increasing health-care system demand. Paradoxically, the provision of health care, which itself is a substantial contributor
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
Heliyon: Reprocessing Zamak laryngoscope blades into new instrument parts; an ‘all-in-one’ experimental study
Disposable instruments in healthcare have led to a significant increase of medical waste. The aim of this study is to validate the recycling of disposable
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’