Blog
October 2018
Amazon Entering Healthcare and Disruption — Lessons from Reprocessing in an Entrenched Supply Chain
Much attention has been given to the announcement that Amazon would jump into the healthcare supply market. Amazon, with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan, intend to [...]
CleanMed Europe 2018 Wraps Up
AMDR's Dan Vukelich participated and spoke this week in Nijmegen, Netherlands as part of CleanMed Europe 2018. Radbound University Medical Center and the city of [...]
Operating Room Greening Initiatives – The Old, the New, and the Way Forward: A Narrative Review
Waste Management & Research, official Journal of the International Solid Waste Association, includes a peer-reviewed article this last month on Greening the OR. Written about Australia, [...]
Not-for-Profit Hospitals Cost-Cutting Isn’t Keeping Up with Revenue Decline
Modern Healthcare reports that not-for-profit hospitals "have begun to rein in expenses, but it's not happening as fast as revenue growth is dropping." The article [...]
EU aims to abolish planned obsolescence
The European Union is looking into “planned obsolescence.” Specifically, the European Parliament is asking the European Commission to “create a clear definition of the term [...]
Hospitals Launch Their Own Competition to Generics Drugs – Implications for Devices
In the last month, the healthcare trade press focused on an ongoing spat between the drug industry and America’s hospitals over who is to blame [...]
September 2018
It’s Time to Clinically Integrate Supply Chain Into Healthcare Reform
Dee Donatelli writes in this month’s Healthcare Purchasing News about integrating supply chain into the move toward clinical integration. “Clinical integration differs from traditional value [...]
May 2018
FDA names drugmakers potentially acting to delay cheap generics
Reuters reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) listed a number of pharmaceutical companies that it believes could be "blocking access to their [...]
NPR Story Addresses “Sticker Shock” for Medical Device Prices
In an NPR Your Health report heard on Morning Edition Tuesday, Liz Szabo discussed medical device prices and their contribution to escalating healthcare costs. The story [...]
South Africa Taking Steps to Advance Reprocessing
In December, 2017, the South African Department of Health issued a long-awaited regulation on medical devices. In it, the reprocessing or repackaging of medical devices [...]
Anti-Reprocessing Efforts Heat Up as Some OEMs Attempt to Thwart Hospital Savings
At AMDR we are committed to the ways in which reprocessing can bring about savings to a healthcare system in need of solutions. Reprocessing of [...]
April 2018
Taking the WASTE Out of Healthcare
Earlier this year, ProPublica's Marshall Allen wrote a commentary in the Washington Post, Want to Cut Health Care Costs? Start with the obscene amount of [...]
As Hospital Profit Margins Fall, Reprocessing Helps Lower Costs
A new Wall Street Journal article is reporting on the financial pressures on the rise for U.S. hospitals due in part to increasing labor costs [...]
Healthcare Innovation Caucus Seeks to Improve Quality of Care, Lower Costs
The Association of Medical Device Reprocessors, AMDR, congratulates members of the new Bipartisan Health Care Innovation Caucus. The March 15 announcement regarding the creation of [...]
AMDR Celebrates Earth Day
At the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors (AMDR), our members are providing a solution to healthcare that simultaneously reduces the environmental impact from discarding used [...]
March 2018
Japanese Council Focuses on Reprocessed Medical Devices
Having played a key role in the establishment of the commercial reprocessing industry in America, the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors (AMDR) has sought, both domestically and [...]
February 2018
Reprocessing: protecting assets and preventing medical device misuse
AMDR has been a long-standing member of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), the premier standards setting organization for medical devices. Recent [...]
January 2018
AMDR Participates in Upcoming EU Conferences, Promotes Reprocessing and Remanufacturing of Single-Use Devices
AMDR continues its speaking and Conference tour of Europe to encourage Ministries of Health, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders to evaluate the provisions of the [...]
Why Does the U.S. Spend More On Healthcare?
A New York Times article looks at the question of Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care and found [...]
November 2017
Biocompatibility for Medical Devices
Later this month, Informa’s KNect 365 hosts a Conference centered around biocompatibility for medical devices. Held in Amsterdam, the conference will focus on regulatory changes [...]