In the Press
September 2021
E & E News: New front in climate fight: Hospital operating rooms
. . . As clinicians, we have the responsibility to do no harm, and that includes not just our patients, but public health and planetary [...]
PA Consulting: Viewing health by-products as resources rather than waste
Rethinking waste as a valuable by-product is vital to meeting sustainability targets across healthcare systems, writes David Rakowski. The entire healthcare industry should be thinking [...]
Mass Device: Testing and certification of refurbished medical equipment
Medical electrical equipment such as MRIs, anesthesia machines, surgical equipment, scanning systems, patient monitors and other types of products are a significant investment for any [...]
Health Care Business News: The keys to successfully implementing a reprocessing initiative at an ambulatory surgery center
There are many benefits of implementing a reprocessing initiative within an Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC). By committing to a reprocessing initiative, a facility can reduce supply [...]
Washington Post: People around the world increasingly see climate change as a personal threat, new poll finds
Nearly three-quarters of residents of countries with some of the world’s most advanced economies worry that climate change will one day create suffering in their [...]
Freethink: Doctors fighting deadly climate change
While still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, health professionals and hospitals are joining forces to respond to another global health emergency: climate change. An international [...]
CleanMed Europe: Registration now open for CleanMed Europe 2021
Registration is now open for CleanMed Europe 2021 and early-bird discounts are available until 15 October. The conference will be held entirely online from 29 November [...]
The New England Journal of Medicine: Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health
The United Nations General Assembly in September 2021 will bring countries together at a critical time for marshalling collective action to tackle the global environmental [...]
Doc Wire News: A life cycle assessment of reprocessing face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic led to threatening shortages in healthcare of medical products such as face masks. Due to this major impact on our healthcare society [...]
AP: Us Health Agency Will Prod Hospitals To Cut Carbon Emissions
FILE - In this June 10, 2021 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on President Joe [...]
August 2021
Medline Newsroom: Medline ReNewal launches continuing education series for cardiac electrophysiology lab clinicians
By 2050, it is projected that more than 5.6 million people in the U.S. will be affected by atrial fibrillation, but less than half of the [...]
HCWH: Webinar recording | How to measure and reduce plastic in healthcare
As part of Plastic Free July, HCWH Europe organised a webinar to show how waste audits support a reduction of plastic use in healthcare and presented [...]
Healthcare Business News: A call for sustainability through reprocessing
The problem-solving aspect of engineering appealed to me since I was young. I would tinker with Legos in attempts to create useful inventions to be [...]
July 2021
European Environment Agency: Impacts of COVID-19 on single-use plastic in Europe’s environment
The COVID19 pandemic is having immense effects on societies across the world. It has caused millions of deaths worldwide and challenged our health systems and [...]
Healthcare Purchasing News: Reevaluating reprocessing workflow
With patient case volumes rebounding from pandemic-related slow-downs, Central Service/Sterile Processing & Distribution (CS/SPD) departments are once again working diligently to safely and quickly turn [...]
Health Care Business News: Biden’s executive order on competition offers path forward to ‘repair markets’
On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued a comprehensive executive order on competition. Entitled Promoting Competition In The American Economy, the order sets forth, in overview, measures [...]
Royal College of Surgeons of England: Are single use items the biggest scam of the century?
So, we can’t see into to the future - or can we? Well, I can. I can see that if we keep operating in the [...]
HPN: Innovative Health launches Emerging Technologies and Clinical Integration Teams
Leading up to this month’s Heart Rhythm 2021 Scientific Sessions, Innovative Health, Inc. announced several new initiatives to increase savings from single-use device reprocessing in [...]
HPN: Medical device reprocessing diverts more than one million pounds of waste
Medline Industries, Inc. announced its Medline ReNewal medical device reprocessing division reported they reached a new milestone after successfully collecting 5.3 million devices for reprocessing [...]
Global Compliance News: New project for royal decree regulating medical devices
The Spanish Ministry of Health is working on a project for a new royal decree regulating medical devices following the adoption of a new framework [...]