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AMDR’s Action Alerts and Technical Tips provide awareness and guidance on important industry developments that could impact your facility’s ability to deliver affordable, sustainable healthcare. Each Alert and Tip breaks down complex legal, regulatory, or market issues into clear guidance for hospital leadership, supply chain and procurement staff, and commercial reprocessors.

Whether it’s about anti-competitive behavior or a critical regulatory shift, you’ll find what’s at stake—and what to do next—right here.

AMDR’s contracting policy template (click here to download) helps health systems formalize their commitment to reprocessing, resist OEM interference, and embed fair contracting standards into procurement.

Protect your hospital’s right to reprocess—with a procurement policy built for the purpose. Includes customizable language, enforcement mechanisms, and legal precedent.

Key Reprocessing Endorsements and Reports

Strategies and Practices for Reducing Waste

Reprocessing Single-Use Medical Devices: Information for Health Care Facilities

DHSC – Design for Life Roadmap

NHS – Device Remanufacture ‘How To’ Guide

Key Actions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions by U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems

Sustainability Journey Map (Uses AMDR Resources)

Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions: A Primer on Measures and Actions for Healthcare Organizations to Mitigate Climate Change

Catalyzing Collective Action to Decarbonize Healthcare – Roadmap for Health Systems and MedTech Suppliers

Fraunhofer

NYU-Stern Center for Sustainable Business – Healthcare Delivery Systems Decarbonization Framework

2008 GAO Report

A Comparison of the Defect Rate Between Original Equipment Manufacturer and Reprocessed Single-Use Bipolar and Ultrasound Diathermy Devices

MedCityNews, “Healthcare Must Move Toward a Circular Economy, and Single-Use Device Reprocessing Offers a Template to Follow.”

Healthcare Without Harm: “On the Road to Circular Healthcare – Reusing Medical Devices.”

Brussels Times: “Time to Move Away from Our ‘Disposable’ Health Care Culture.”

Health Affairs, Transforming The Medical Device Industry: Road Map To A Circular Economy

Hospital Healthcare Europe, Medical Device Remanufacturing Offered as an Example to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Servitization in the Single-Use Medical Device Industry: How Device OEMs Create Supply Chain Circularity through Reprocessing

Lancet: How Medicine Becomes Trash; Disposability in Healthcare

Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Cost of Repairing Surgical Scissors

OR Manager, Expanding Reprocessing Programs Yield Cost Savings, Terri Nelson, Matt nelson and Barb Braun Zinser, Mayo and Captis

Six Steps to Make SUD Reprocessing More Effective

Maximize the Value of Your SUD Reprocessing Program

Sustainaility Scorecard: How to Implement and Profit from Unexpected Solutions

A Case Study of the Environmental and Economic Sustainability of Using Remanufactured Ultrasound Catheters

HealthcareLCA database: Living repository