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 [...]
CleanMed Europe 2018 Wraps Up
AMDR's Dan Vukelich participated and spoke this week in Nijmegen, Netherlands as part [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
EU aims to abolish planned obsolescence
The European Union is looking into “planned obsolescence.” Specifically, the European Parliament is [...]
Hospitals Launch Their Own Competition to Generics Drugs – Implications for Devices
In the last month, the healthcare trade press focused on an ongoing spat [...]
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 [...]
FDA names drugmakers potentially acting to delay cheap generics
Reuters reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) listed a number [...]
NPR Story Addresses “Sticker Shock” for Medical Device Prices
In an NPR Your Health report heard on Morning Edition Tuesday, Liz Szabo [...]
South Africa Taking Steps to Advance Reprocessing
In December, 2017, the South African Department of Health issued a long-awaited regulation [...]