Becker’s Hospital Review: Hospitals could save $2B by extending the life of ‘single-use’ medical devices, advocacy group says
American health systems could potentially save $2.3 billion through extending the life of [...]
Anthropocene Magazine: What will it take to shrink the carbon footprint of health care
One of the most instantly recognizable emblems of the past pandemic year is the [...]
Med-Tech News: Why sustainability is vital in the future production of medical devices
Sustainability is an issue that as medical device developers and manufacturers we need [...]
Bloomberg: Hospitals Confront Their Climate Achilles Heel: Supply Chains
The health-care industry accounts for 8.5% of the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions, almost [...]
I Online: Joao Queiroz e Melo. “I believe this will be more important than having had the first heart transplant”
. . . The case of reprocessing single-use devices is another example. There [...]
I Online: The environmental footprint of health costs the environment and public coffers
An analysis published in 2019 concluded that, in Portugal, healthcare has an impact [...]
SOL: Fighting Hidden Hospital Pollution
In Portugal, healthcare represents 4.8% of greenhouse emissions. Hospital beds produce five to six [...]
NHS Confederation: Procurement in the NHS: how our future will have to be different
…The NHS is already achieving some real successes, supported by procurement professionals and [...]
Medical Device Network: Reprocessing of single-use devices lowers costs in cardiac operating suites
Many devices used in cardiac catheterisation labs and electrophysiology suites are single-use by [...]
Sustainable Procurement: Best Practices from Top Reprocessing Hospitals
Waste Not, Want Not U.S. hospitals account for a surprising 8.5% of all [...]