Patient well-being is naturally a top priority for health systems. However, leading organizations are increasingly turning their attention to the environmental impact of their operations. Many ...

Every healthcare facility faces the same challenge: to reduce costs without sacrificing the delivery of quality care. As a result of dwindling healthcare reimbursements, and increased awareness of ...

The Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI Institute) has released its annual "Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations," naming some repeat offenders—like device reprocessing—to ...

In 2000, when FDA led the U.S. to become the first country in the world to regulate the use of reprocessed single-use devices, the agency responded to concerns from manufacturers and physicians that ...

It might surprise you that Europe, and specifically the European Union (EU), is lagging far behind the United States when it comes to the re-use of single-use devices. After all, Europe is usually ...

Jack Egnatinsky, MD, medical director of the AAAHC and a retired anesthesiologist, discusses what ASCs must do to meet AAAHC standards if they reprocess single-use devices and equipment. Dr. Jack ...

STEMart now offers Reprocessing Validations services in accordance with ISO, AAMI and ASTM standards to validate reprocessing instructions for reusable devices. The full range of medical device ...

Smith & Nephew provided shaver blades for a reprocessing study. Opponents of the reprocessing of single-use devices (SUDs) are continuing their fight, and a recent study that found damage on ...

The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation and the FDA hosted the 2011 Medical Device Reprocessing Summit to discuss challenges of reprocessing reusable medical devices. 1. Define ...

A Tennessee-based company specializing in medical device manufacturing and reprocessing plans to invest $1.2 million to expand its Norfolk operations, adding 60 jobs, the governor announced Friday.

Congress's investigative arm said yesterday that it will investigate the safety of using reconditioned medical devices designated for one-time use and the government's oversight of the practice. In a ...