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January 2013
The Commonwealth Fund: Confronting Costs: Stabilizing U.S. Health Spending While Moving Toward a High Performance Health Care System
The Commonwealth Fund releases its report Confronting Costs: Stabilizing U.S. Health Spending While Moving Toward a High Performance Health Care System. The Fund's Commission on a High [...]
Modern Healthcare: CMS announces over 100 new ACO contracts
Use of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) continues to expand according to Modern Healthcare, in CMS announces over 100 new ACO contracts. ACOs "offer hospitals and doctors [...]
Hospitals & Health Networks: Using Comparative-Effectiveness Research to Improve Care
Vivian Ho, Ph.D., chair of health economics at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in Houston and professor in the department [...]
Becker's ASC Review, 11 Ways to Cut Overhead Costs at Surgery Centers
Medical device reprocessing included in Becker's ASC Review, 11 Ways to Cut Overhead Costs at Surgery Centers: "There are companies that focus on reprocessing and they [...]
FierceHealthcare: Sustainable hospitals could save industry $15B
Sustainable hospitals could save industry $15B, reports FierceHealthcare: Despite some hospitals' thinking that it will cost more to undertake green initiatives, a recent Commonwealth Fund report found that [...]
HealthLeaders: Execs Grapple with Healthcare Cost Problem
Cost reduction and process improvement is priority for Healthcare executives according to HealthLeaders: In our newly released Industry Survey, available for free download on our website, healthcare [...]
Earth911.com, Study: Hospitals Could Save Billions Using Green Practices
From Earth911.com: Recycling and reusing medical products isn’t just the environmentally friendly way to perform hospital care – it actually makes financial sense. A little [...]
Healthcare Design: The Cost of Going (or Not Going) Green
Jennifer Kovacs Silvis, Managing Editor of Healthcare Design writes on the Costs of Going (or Not Going) Green in Healthcare: What if it was possible [...]
December 2012
Greenhealth: Waste Not
Check out Practice Greenhealth's Greenhealth magazine article, Waste Not; Lessons from one of the country's greenest hospitals on how to make less waste part of the culture. [...]
The Commonwealth Fund:
The Commonwealth Fund addresses SUD reprocessing in their report, Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Bend the Health Care Cost Curve? (November 2012): ...if hospitals nationwide adopted [...]
Greenhealth: Reprocess and Reuse
In Reprocess and Reuse, the November/December issue of GreenHealth addresses SUD reprocessing as one critical method hospitals can create a more sustainable operating room: Reprocessing of [...]
AMDR President Dan Vukelich Chosen to Speak at 2013 IAHCSMM Annual Conference in San Diego
Dan Vukelich, President of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors, was recently chosen to be a featured speaker at the International Association of Healthcare Central [...]
Greenhealth Magazine: Sustainable Cardiac Services
Greenhealth Magazine BY PAUL R. BARACH, NSW DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA; FORBES MCGAIN, DEPARTMENT OF ANESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE, WESTERN HEALTH, MELBOURNE; NICHOLAS [...]
DOTmed News: The Economics of Supplies
DOTmed News December 3, 2012 By Brian White, President of Stryker Sustainability Solutions It's a challenging time for hospitals, but it's also an exciting one. [...]
Health Facilities Management: The Incentives Continue to Grow for Hospitals to Reduce Their Impact on the Environment
Health Facilities Management December 2012 By Jeff Ferenc, Senior Editor If it's the mission of hospitals everywhere to improve the health and well-being of patients, [...]
Plastics Today: Hospital Sustainability Drives Will Affect Plastics' Demand
Plastics Today December 5, 2012 By Doug Smock Kaiser Permanente, a California-based healthcare group, saved $8.2 million in purchasing and waste disposal costs last year [...]
American Medical News: ACOs, Already Surging, Poised for Even More Growth
American Medical News December 10, 2012 By VICTORIA STAGG ELLIOTT The number of accountable care organizations has increased significantly in recent years and is expected to [...]
Practice Greenhealth Innovation Image Photo Contest
Practice Greenhealth is currently running a contest among its members and "Greening the OR" participants for photographs that best capture "sustainable innovations" in the operating room [...]
AMDR Submits Comments to FDA on the proposed Unique Device Identification System
The Association of Medical Device Reprocessors (AMDR) submitted comments on November 7, 2012 in response to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) proposed rule (published [...]
Delos Cosgrove, CEO and President for Cleveland Clinic: What is “Sustainability” in Healthcare?
LinkedIn posting by Delos Cosgrove November 28, 2012 Some may consider “sustainability” to be little more than a popular buzzword, but for those of us in [...]