Blog
March 2012
DOTmed News: "Special Report: The Start of Endoscopy's Reign"
DOTmed News March 16, 2012 by Diana Bradley , Staff Writer When faced with surgery, it goes without saying that patients favor the most minimally invasive route. [...]
PR Web: St. Elizabeth Health Center Receives ‘Healthy Hospital Award’
PR Web News Release March 19, 2012 St. Elizabeth Health Center has received a silver “Healthy Hospital Award” from Stryker Sustainability Solutions. The award recognizes [...]
Fierce Health Finance: "CBO: Medicare, Medicaid spending to double by 2020"
Fierce Health Finance March 14th, 2012 Alicia Caramenico The Congressional Budget Office has issued a revised report projecting Medicare and Medicaid spending will grow significantly over the [...]
AMDR Members Selected for Practice Greenhealth's Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Business Leadership Coalition
SterilMed and Stryker Sustainability Solutions were recently selected as founding members for Practice Greenhealth's (PGH) Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) Business Leadership Coalition, a group of 15 [...]
Outpatient Surgery Magazine: Secrets to Success With Reprocessing
Outpatient Surgery Magazine Renea Goode, RN Controversy still surrounds the reprocessing of single-use devices. Opponents of reprocessed SUDs claim reused instruments are unclean and unsafe. [...]
Becker's Hospital Review: "Reprocessing for the Future: 10 Best Practices for a Hospital Reprocessing Program"
Becker's Hospital Review Authored by Lars Thording, Senior Director of Marketing and Public Affairs, Stryker Sustainability Solutions March 6, 2012 Every healthcare facility faces the same [...]
February 2012
AMDR Participating in US International Trade Commission Hearing on Remanufactured Goods
AMDR President Dan Vukelich will be participating in a public hearing today held by the US International Trade Commission (USITC), entitled "Remanufactured Goods: An Overview [...]
GlobeNewswire: Vascular Solutions Launches Reprocessing Service for ClosureFAST(R) Vein Catheters
GlobeNewswire Press Release Posted on February 1, 2012 Vascular Solutions, Inc. announced that it is marketing a reprocessing service for the ClosureFAST radiofrequency ablation catheter [...]
January 2012
Protect Our Savings: Are You a Healthy Hospital Award Winner?
The following was posted by Lars Thording, Senior Director of Marketing and Public Affairs at Stryker Sustainability Solutions, for the ProtectOurSavings.com blog. Each year, we recognize our [...]
HealthLeaders Media: Spine Surgeons Waste Millions on Open, Unused Implant Devices
The following article appeared November 10, 2011 on the HealthLeaders Media website. Published by Jon Cantlupe Talk to enough physicians and hospital execs, and you [...]
Medical Tourism Magazine: "Reprocessing 'Single-Use' Medical Devices: A Sustainable Solution"
The following article, authored by AMDR President Dan Vukelich, was featured in the January 2012 Issue of Medical Tourism Magazine. January 17, 2012 In today’s [...]
Protect Our Savings: Reprocessing Electrophysiology Catheters – What the Studies Show
The following was written by Gurmeet Singh, Product Director for EP and Cardiology products at Stryker Sustainability Solutions, for the ProtectOurSavings.com blog. Today, the reprocessing [...]
The Jerusalem Post: "Comptroller: Set Medical Equipment Reuse Policy"
The following article appeared in The Jerusalem Post on December 12, 2011: Published By: Judy Siegel-Itzkovich The Health Ministry has failed for the last 15 [...]
Journal of Healthcare Contracting: Practicing Cost-Conscious Medicine
The Journal of Healthcare Contracting recently interviewed Steven Weinberger, M.D., executive vice president and CEO of the American College of Physicians, regarding the unsustainable cost [...]
Outpatient Surgery Magazine: Do You Reprocess Single-Use Devices?
The following article appeared in the October 2011 issue of Outpatient Surgery Magazine Published by Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief Once viewed as risky and rogue, reusing reprocessed [...]
Outpatient Surgery Magazine: Save With Reprocessed Single-Use Devices
The following article appeared in the January 2012 issue of Outpatient Surgery Magazine Published by Kirby Harvey, RT, ST We recently sent out $4,000 worth of single-use [...]
Protect Our Savings: Sustainability in the Healthcare Supply Chain
The following post, appearing on ProtectOurSavings.com, was authored by Will Probst, Senior Director of Supply Chain Services at Stryker Sustainability Solutions: 2011 was a landmark [...]
Re-post from Millennium Research Group Blog: Major medical device manufacturers embrace reprocessing
Check out the Millennium Research Group blog post, Major Medical Device Manufacturers Embrace Reprocessing (01/06/12): ...In 2009, Stryker acquired Ascent Healthcare Solutions, the number one reprocessing firm [...]
AMDR President to Speak at 5th Annual Sterilisation for Medical Devices Summit in Dublin, Ireland May 23-24
AMDR President Dan Vukelich has been selected as a speaker for the Sterilisation for Medical Devices conference, scheduled for May 23-24 at the Radisson Blu [...]
Reprocessing: Going Global
The following post by AMDR President Dan Vukelich can be found in its entirety on the Protect Our Savings blog: For more than ten years, [...]