Blog
April 2010
ABC15 Arizona: Gilbert Hospital Recognized for "Green" Operating Rooms
ABC15 Arizona: Gilbert Hospital Recognized for "Green" Operating Rooms (04/21/10): In 2009, the hospital reduced its supply costs by $251,386 and reduced medical waste by [...]
AZCentral.com: Businesses take eco-friendly practices seriously
AZCentral.com: Businesses take eco-friendly practices seriously (04/20/10): Banner Health The health-care provider is Mesa's second-largest employer. It is saving tons of land waste by recycling more [...]
Hospital Management.net: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Reprocessing Medical Devices
Hospital Management.net: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Reprocessing Medical Devices (03/31/10): Reprocessing medical devices has always been a part of the medical-device life cycle, in both the [...]
EVLiving: Scottsdale Healthcare Celebrates Earth Day with Recycle Art Show
EVLiving: Scottsdale Healthcare Celebrates Earth Day with Recycle Art Show (04/13/10): Among other green and other sustainable accomplishments for 2009, Scottsdale Healthcare highlights: Receiving the 2009 [...]
HealthLeaders: New CMS Dashboard the Start of More Health Cost, Quality Transparency
HealthLeaders: New CMS Dashboard the Start of More Health Cost, Quality Transparency: A public Web site introduced this week by the Centers for Medicare and [...]
Healthcare Purchasing News: MedAssets honors Best-in-Class customers and suppliers at 2010 Healthcare Business Summit
Healthcare Purchasing News: MedAssets honors Best-in-Class customers and suppliers at 2010 Healthcare Business Summit: ...The Supply Chain Savings Award was given to Ascent and to [...]
FDA: FDA-Track: Agency-wide Program Performance
AMDR commends FDA for its FDA-Track inititive: FDA-TRACK is a new agency-wide program performance management system that monitors over 100 FDA program offices through key performance [...]
Dotmedbusiness News: Disposables Losing Their Grip?
The April issue of Dotmedbusiness News includes an article by Olga Deshchenko, Disposables Losing Their Grip? In it, Ms. Deshchenko writes …the reprocessing of single ue devices [...]
Infection Control Today: Reprocessing Highlighted as a Key Strategy for Greening the OR at Healthcare Symposium
Infection Control Today: Reprocessing Highlighted as a Key Strategy for Greening the OR at Healthcare Symposium: Ascent, a leader in delivering healthcare resource sustainability, announces [...]
New England Journal of Medicine: Modernizing Device Regulation
Dr. Alan M. Garber writes about Modernizing Device Regulation in the New England Journal of Medicine: Medical devices hold tremendous potential for both good and [...]
March 2010
The New York Times: Now Comes the Hard Part
The New York Times, in a Jonathan Cohn Op-ed, Now Comes the Hard Part, writes (03/26/10): BENDING THE CURVE Dozens of new initiatives are intended [...]
Dotmed.com's AORN Video Profile: Ascent Healthcare Solutions
DOTmed.com's AORN Video Profile: Ascent Healthcare Solutions (03/23/10): As hospitals and health care providers look for ways to become more environmentally friendly, companies like Ascent [...]
European Commission: Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks
The European Commission's Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) 6th meeting of the Working Group on Reprocessing of Single-Use Medical Devices released [...]
Science Daily: Going Green in the Hospital: Recycling Medical Equipment Saves Money, Reduces Waste and Is Safe
Science Daily: Going Green in the Hospital: Recycling Medical Equipment Saves Money, Reduces Waste and Is Safe (02/26/10): Wider adoption of the practice of recycling [...]
The Washington Post: President Obama Signs Landmark Health Bill Into Law
The Washington Post: President Obama signs landmark health bill into law (03/23/10): President Obama signed a landmark health-care bill into law Tuesday, enacting a sweeping [...]
TMCnet: Ascent's Programs Champion Change in the Healthcare Industry
TMCnet.comreports in a Healthcare Featured Article: Ascent's Programs Champion Change in the Healthcare Industry (03/19/10): Ascent’s programs have caught the attention of renowned healthcare institutions, [...]
DOTmed.com: Health Care Vote May Come This Weekend
DOTmed.com reports: Health Care Vote May Come This Weekend March 18, 2010 (03/18/10). It's wait and hurry up. House of Representatives action on the long-awaited [...]
DotMed.com, Michigan Legislature Sends Device Re-Use Bill to Governor
DotMed.com reports that the Michigan Legislature Sends Device Re-Use Bill to Governor, (03/16/10). AMDR-supported legislation to prohibit certain re-use of "single-use" items has passed the Michigan legislature. DotMed.com [...]
TriplePundit.com: Many Hospitals Now Safely Reuse ‘Single Use’ Medical Devices
TriplePundit.com reports Many Hospitals Now Safely Reuse ‘Single Use’ Medical Devices (03/12/10). In addition to discussing some of the facts behind the "single-use" label, TriplePundit discusses the [...]
Medical Product Manufacturing News: Suppliers Aim to Renew OEMs' Interest in Eco-Friendly Plastics
The nation's FDA-regulated, third-party medical device reprocessing industry has led the overall device industry in providing GREEN medical device alternatives for the healthcare community. Reprocessed devices are [...]