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July 2012
Fierce Medical Devices: Obama Signs FDA User Fee Extension
Fierce Medical Devices July 10, 2012 | By Damian Garde President Barack Obama signed the FDA Safety and Innovation Act on Monday, reauthorizing the agency and [...]
Chicago Tribune: U.S. Plans IDs to Track Medical Device Safety
Chicago Tribune July 3, 2012 By Anna Yukhananov, Reuters Medical devices like hip implants and heart defibrillators will soon join the ranks of cars and [...]
Environmental Leader: Toyota, Johnson & Johnson, Honda Top Global Green Brands Ranking
Environmental Leader June 26, 2012 Toyota, Johnson & Johnson, Honda, Volkswagon and Hewlett-Packard topped an annual ranking of global green brands by consultancy firm Interbrand. [...]
June 2012
NY Times: Supreme Court Lets Health Law Largely Stand
NY Times By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr. Published: June 28, 2012 The Supreme Court on Thursday largely let stand President Obama’s health care overhaul, in a mixed [...]
DOTmed News: Senate passes FDA user fee renewal bill
DOTmed News June 26, 2012 by Brendon Nafziger , DOTmed News Associate Editor The U.S. Senate passed the Food and Drug Administration user fee reauthorization bill in [...]
ars technica: Hospitals Can Save Money Just Sorting Their Trash
ars technica by James Holloway - June 22 2012 A report recently published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal suggests that hospitals could save considerable sums of money [...]
The European Perspective on Reprocessing
The following post was written by AMDR President Dan Vukelich for the Protect Our Savings blog: The European Union (EU) does not currently have [...]
European Cardiology: "Reprocessing Cardiology Devices – Reviewing 15 Years of Experience in Germany"
European Cardiology Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 2012 By: Marcus Bracklo, Chief Executive Office and Ulrike Marczak, Head of Reprocessing, Vanguard AG (Berlin). Vanguard AG, the [...]
Fierce Medical Devices: House Votes to Extend Medical Device User Fees
Fierce Medical Devices June 21, 2012 | By Damian Garde The FDA user fee reauthorization bill continued its quick trip through Congress on Wednesday, as the [...]
Hospitals & Health Networks: Going Green, Getting Into the Black
Hospitals & Health Networks June 19, 2012 By Haydn Bush At most hospitals, John Danby, the sustainability administrator for University of California-Davis Health System, says, [...]
CQ: Agreement Reached on User Fee Bill
CQ June 18, 2012 By Emily Ethridge House and Senate leaders announced a bipartisan deal Monday on a five-year reauthorization of the Food and Drug [...]
FierceMedicalDevices: Euro Devicemakers Balk at Proposed Approval Process
FierceMedicalDevices June 18, 2012 | By Damian Garde The European Parliament is proposing a sweeping change in the way devices reach the market in the European [...]
Healthcare Design Magazine: Healthcare's Environmental Awareness
Healthcare Design Magazine June 7, 2012 A global move is underway to raise awareness of how healthcare plays a role in damaging the environment. Whether [...]
MarketWatch: US Market for Electrophysiology Mapping and Ablation Devices to Reach Value of over $1.6 Billion by 2016
MarketWatch Press Release June 12, 2012 According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, the United States electrophysiology (EP) [...]
NY Times: House Acts to Repeal Medical-Device Tax
New York Times June 7, 2012 In another assault on President Obama’s health care law, the House passed a bill on Thursday to repeal a new [...]
High Desert Daily: VV Community Hospital Receives Excellence Award
High Desert Daily June 5, 2012 Victor Valley Community Hospital (VVCH) has been awarded the Environmental Excellence Award from Sterilmed Inc., a Minnesota-based health care cost [...]
North County Times (Escondido, CA): Palomar Health Wins Recognition for Environmental Efforts
North County Times June 4, 2012 BY PAUL SISSON psisson@nctimes.com Practice Greenhealth, a national nonprofit that promotes environmental responsibility in the health care sector, named [...]
May 2012
Outpatient Surgery Magazine: Save With Reprocessed Single-Use Devices
Outpatient Surgery Magazine January 2012 Kirby Harvey, RT, ST We recently sent out $4,000 worth of single-use devices for reprocessing and received most of them [...]
PRWeb: Medical Device Cleaning and Recycling in the US Industry Market Research Report Now Available from IBISWorld
IBISWorld (via PRWeb) May 21, 2012 The Medical Device Cleaning and Recycling has grown in popularity during the five years to 2012. Revenue is expected to increase [...]
ProtectOurSavings.com: Third-Party Reprocessors Co-found Practice Greenhealth’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Business Leadership Coalition
ProtectOurSavings.com Posted May 15, 2012 SterilMed and Stryker Sustainability Solutions, founding members of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors (AMDR), were recently selected to be founding members for [...]