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More are seeing the enormous benefits of green innovations like of "single-use" medical devices (R-SUDs). Read this outstanding DOTmed story to learn how embracing R-SUDs can advance goals and save costs. https://ow.ly/vJN550SPWtJ

Discover how expanding use of sustainable solutions in the space can improve patient care, cut costs, and strengthen supply chains. 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️

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Celebrate by exploring AMDR’s new CO2 calculator, powered by research from LCAs that show “single-use” (rSUDs) reduce at hospitals by an average of 44%: https://ow.ly/CQaG50RkQlJ

The calculator gives sustainability managers a free tool to track and lower emissions at hospitals by using rSUDs.

"We have long had the science to prove reprocessing is safe, and more recently because of peer reviewed life cycle assessments, we know they substantially cut emissions compared to using virgin devices," said Daniel J. Vukelich, President and CEO, AMDR. "But now, we’ve created a free calculator tool – available for all to use – so that hospitals everywhere can approximate how much they are reducing their carbon footprint by using reprocessed 'single-use' devices."

By using rSUDs, AMDR members help nearly 10,000 slash pollution-causing waste from the medical supply chain while saving costs and critical resources.

"LCAs have been providing valuable data and insights in other industries for decades, and we're proud to help translate this science into meaning for hospitals," said sustainability researcher Cassandra Thiel, PhD, President and CEO of Clinically Sustainable Consulting. "Based on the research, a switch to more reprocessed devices is a straightforward way for hospitals to reduce their carbon footprint."

A growing body of research shows that medical devices gives providers simple, immediate ways to help shrink their while saving costs.

Explore this handy checklist in a recent DOTmed.com, Inc article by Lars Thording to see what questions hospitals can ask to optimize the tremendous value of reprocessing programs: https://ow.ly/ztlA50R3P3y

Profitable, sustainable reprocessing programs: A healthcare provider’s checklist Part 2 of 3 in a series by Lars Thording, VP of marketing & public affairs at Innovative Health LLC

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"Single-use" medical device (SUD) saved U.S. and medical centers nearly $51M while diverting 1.6M pounds of waste and reducing disposal costs by nearly $500K, Practice Greenhealth's recently released 2023 Sustainability Benchmark Data Report shows.

Check it out and take a closer look at how U.S. health systems are benefiting from SUD reprocessing programs they implemented: https://ow.ly/37yn50Qx3ZJ

As world leaders gather in Dubai for to on solutions that limit the impact of climate change, now is the time to reverse the EU Medical Device Regulation’s (MDR) opt-out default provision for single-use device , a simple innovation that helps extend the lifespan of medical products and build resilience into medical supply chains. Read AMDR President and CEO Daniel J. Vukelich, Esq., CAE’s latest article: https://ow.ly/Qh9o50QgbUT

Opting into the EU MDR will make it easier for countries like France, Austria, and Poland to fulfill their commitment to advance decarbonization in the health sector, allowing hospitals to use regulated, commercially remanufactured, CE-marked that research shows could help them cut by as much as 60%, slash waste, and lower spiraling costs.

Learn why we believe the opt-out default provision of the EU MDR is an anti-competitive policy that forces EU hospitals to generate huge amounts of waste and emissions that hurt the planet, harm public health, and needlessly drive up costs in a time of great financial strain.

The sleep medicine industry can take steps now to advance environmental sustainability by accelerating use of reprocessed "single-use" medical devices (R-SUDs), because they "can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cost, and waste, and they strengthen supply chain resilience," AMDR President Daniel J. Vukelich says in Sleep Review's new story: https://ow.ly/5V7950PMVuV

A growing number of studies show that reprocessing and other green technologies can help hospitals build a circular economy by maximizing the product life cycle while minimizing waste disposal that harms the health of populations and the planet. Read about innovations that can help sleep medicine cut its , with insights from Jodi D. Sherman, MD, founding director of the Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability, along with other experts from Health Care Without Harm, Practice Greenhealth, The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and Wake Forest Medical Center: https://ow.ly/5V7950PMVuV

Sleep Medicine’s Path to Environmental Sustainability (Editor's Message) An experience with a single-use HST inspired me to find out how sleep medicine could do more to facilitate environmental sustainability.

Check out this fantastic roadmap, developed by Kaiser Permanente and HealthCareWithoutHarm, to learn how health systems, suppliers, and group purchasing organizations can collaborate to identify areas for collective action that will drive greater sustainability throughout healthcare and beyond: https://ow.ly/46eB50PzcNS

“Single-use” reprocessing creates new opportunities for and suppliers to cut deadly levels of by reducing waste from the medical supply chain — also saving costs for providers in a time of great financial strain.

"Engaging clinicians in reprocessing pilots can lead to increased adoption of reprocessed devices, resulting in cost savings, waste reduction, and the potential for improved access to medical devices in resource-constrained settings. Hospitals save approximately 50% for every reprocessed device purchased and spend less on disposal of waste."

Learn more in "Catalyzing Collective Action to Decarbonize Healthcare": https://ow.ly/46eB50PzcNS

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Today we're thrilled to shine a light on The Reusies 2023 Activist of the Year, Daniel Vukelich!

Taking on the one-way throw-away paradigm from a unique angle, as CEO of Association of Medical Device Reprocessors , Dan provides hospital management and policy makers with the tools to reduce greenhouse emissions, cost, and waste through the safe reuse of "single-use" medical devices. When he began this work in 2000, roughly $20M worth of single-use devices were collected and reprocessed at a handful of hospitals. Today over $468M worth of these devices are reused at over 10,500 hospitals, diverting millions of pounds of waste from landfills annually -- a remarkable win for reuse in the medical community and beyond.

Congratulations to Dan and all of The Reusies finalists and winners! To learn more about them, visit thereusies.org.

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AMDR President Daniel J. Vukelich, Esq., CAE, shared some of the latest studies showing how medical device reprocessing cuts and updated attendees on the dramatic growth of reprocessing globally during a recent presentation at , organized by HealthCareWithoutHarm and Practice Greenhealth.

See how the conference, held in Pittsburgh May 23-25, demonstrated rapidly increasing support for "single-use" medical device (SUD) reprocessing among hospital leaders and the public health sector. Speakers from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the University of California (Center for Climate, Health and Equity), the Womack Army Medical Center, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center all explored a common theme: How to overcome barriers to expanding SUD reprocessing at hospitals to help them cut toxic emissions, 80% of which come from the medical supply chain.

Read Dan's new article to learn about the tremendous progress being made to accelerate this sustainable innovation, and how the health sector can be part of the solution by using more reprocessed devices now.

Drive to Use More Reprocessed “Single-Use” Medical Devices Takes Center Stage at CleanMed23 At least four sessions at CleanMed23 (Pittsburgh, May 23-25) featured presentations in support of the use of more FDA regulated, reprocessed “single-use” medical devices (SUDs). And for good reason – they are a “low hanging fruit” solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the hos...

We are thrilled to share that Daniel J. Vukelich, AMDR President, has been named as a finalist for the 3rd Annual Reuse Awards , presented by Upstream and streaming live from on 6/7! Learn how to get involved. 👇

✅ VOTE for Dan to win in the Activist of the Year 2023 category by visiting http://ow.ly/R5O350NNBfi.

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Dan forged a roadmap for future reuse industries by working with regulatory authorities to develop a level, safe marketplace for reprocessed "single-use" medical devices (SUDs). His leadership resulted in 33M reprocessed SUDs sold in 2021 alone to over 10,500 hospitals. No wonder he's a finalist for ! As far as we know, this is the first time anyone from the sector has been nominated.

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We are deeply honored that Dan is being considered among those who serve on the frontlines of advancing innovative reuse solutions and working toward achieving a more sustainable, waste-free circular economy future.

As President and CEO Daniel J. Vukelich, Esq., CAE highlights in his recent article (http://ow.ly/Nyxm50NfPR8), the 2021 Annual AMDR Member Survey Results report (http://ow.ly/yvZe50NcK7R) shows that U.S. Food and Drug Administration-regulated reprocessing of “single-use” saves tens of millions of dollars each year. According to new research, it also cuts medical waste and slashes deadly .

Read his insightful piece to explore recent Yale University research demonstrating general support among healthcare workers for this effective innovation. http://ow.ly/Nyxm50NfPR8

See how the unfair business practices of some original equipment manufacturers obstruct the broader expansion of reprocessing, and learn about the urgent need for regulatory authorities and health sector leaders to defend the right to repair products, including those that are reprocessed.

Yale Research Shows Health Systems Are Interested in Reprocessing. Unfair Industry Practices Are Getting in the Way. Regulated medical device reprocessing is a proven example of a real sustainability solution in the healthcare industry. By turning over used medical devices to regulated, professional, third-party reprocessing firms, healthcare providers can extend the service lives of millions of products, slashing

Healthcare workers can lead the way in fighting by cutting from and the medical supply chain through “single-use” reprocessing and other cost-saving, solutions.

Learn more in this excellent Supply Chain Digital piece by GenPact's Urvashi Bhatnagar and AMDR President and CEO Daniel J. Vukelich: http://ow.ly/FO1R50MMpLt

Healthcare CEOs must cut carbon from supply chains - Genpact GenPact’s Urvashi Bhatnagar, and Dan Vukelich of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors, on why the healthcare sector need to cut Co2

Learn why the time is now for hospitals to replace the medical supply chain's disposable culture with more sustainable, affordable innovations like reprocessing and how the growing "right to repair" movement plays an increasingly critical role in healthcare.

See this recent piece in STAT featuring AMDR President and CEO Daniel J. Vukelich, Esq., CAE: http://ow.ly/6B1W50M3J52

'Right to repair' movement gains momentum in the tightly controlled world of medical devices Medical device makers have a tight hold on who's allowed to repair medical devices like ventilators and MRI machines. That's changing as the "right to repair" movement gains momentum.

"Single-use" medical device offers a simple, immediate way to help them protect the health of the environment and populations worldwide, while also reducing costs. Listen to this new edition of "The Climate Minute" podcast to learn more: http://ow.ly/643K50LFkqr

Gain insights from Daniel J. Vukelich, Esq., CAE, AMDR President and CEO, along with Dr. Qi Ott, Staff Anesthesiologist, Hmfp At Bidmc, who discuss why the time is now for healthcare providers to replace the medical supply chain's disposable "take-make-waste" culture with more sustainable, innovations in healthcare: http://ow.ly/wzaE50LFkqq

Helping Hospitals Reduce their Carbon Pollution Medical care in the US generates a lot of carbon pollution. Part of this pollution comes from the manufacture of very sophisticated and expensive ‘one-use-only’ medical devices. A good way to reduce CO2 emissions from medical care is to carefully re-proces...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ( ) released a new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) urging to pursue green solutions like reprocessing to fuel greater resource stewardship. Read today’s AMDR release to learn how “Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions: A Primer on Measures and Actions to Mitigate Climate Change” helps the U.S. health sector cut by 50 percent by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050, advancing Biden Administration goals: https://lnkd.in/eKKuy5Cx

Join us in applauding for recognizing the tremendous benefits of these -regulated devices and seeing “single-use” medical devices as hospital assets that help them slash their , reduce waste, and save costs while strengthening medical supply chain resilience.

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Expanding "single-use" (SUD) reprocessing helps original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and leaders make enormous strides in reducing and create a more sustainable in healthcare, a new report in Sustainability journal finds.

Learn how several major OEMs of SUDs and a growing number of health sector experts support reprocessing as a way to build a more medical supply chain of the future while fueling long-term market share gains: http://ow.ly/5OlQ50LbovF

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Green Servitization in the Single-Use Medical Device Industry: How Device OEMs Create Supply Chain Circularity through Reprocessing Establishing a circular supply chain for single-use medical devices would make a significant contribution to reduce health care-generated emissions. One way in which this can be accomplished is to apply the possibility of device recovery through high-level disinfection and sterilization (a process r...

“The bargain to choose disposability over sustainability may have made sense 50 years ago, but it does not anymore. We need to recognize that medical waste is the outcome of a set of value decisions we have made in the past and can change in the future.”

Read this incisive new piece in The Lancet to learn why the time is now to replace the take-make-waste disposable culture of today's medical supply chain with a more sustainable, resilient circular economy: https://lnkd.in/eKEaREYU

Single-use (SUD) reprocessing is the green solution global health systems need to help slash their massive and protect populations from the deadly impact of .

How medicine becomes trash: disposability in health care A new momentum is growing to address medicine's oversized carbon footprint. Yet in many countries the movement to decarbonise health care remains in catch-up mode. The lagging position of medicine in the greening of industry is paradoxical when one considers the burden of illness related to climate....

Climate change shows why the time is now for health sector leaders to build a more resilient medical supply chain. Learn how solutions like “single-use” medical device reprocessing help cut deadly , protecting and the planet. http://ow.ly/OOJS50L2osQ

Watch AMDR President Daniel J. Vukelich, Esq., CAE in this week’s “Medtech Webisode Series” to learn how simple, easy, and affordable it is for your hospital to launch and sustain a successful program to improve care, reduce waste, and save costs starting now: http://ow.ly/OOJS50L2osQ

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Learn What it Takes to Launch a Successful Reprocessing Program Daniel J. Vukelich, President of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessing, outlines the need for hospitals to extend the life of single-use medical devices.

Thanks to “single-use” reprocessing and other innovations, and leaders have learned it’s possible to turn the “take-make-waste” culture of the medical supply chain into a greener, cost-saving model.

Join us in applauding the outstanding work of Urvashi Bhatnagar and Paul Anastas, co-authors of “The Sustainability Scorecard.” http://ow.ly/zkQ650KECa4 Check out this groundbreaking new book that will help guide those in healthcare and beyond to identify, implement, and track initiatives to cut and lower costs:

"To further make the sustainability and economic argument for [reprocessed single-use] medical devices, studies have found that rates for postoperative infection, use of antibiotics, and length of stay in the hospital were all exactly the same for patients using [reprocessed] equipment and the total cost of the surgery was up to 50% less [using reprocessed SUDs]."

The Sustainability Scorecard, reviewed | Greenbiz Paul Anastas and Urvashi Bhatnagar's new book provides a simple and straightforward method for identifying where a company currently is on their sustainability journey and a method to track progress.

Take a closer look at opportunities for healthcare leaders to help build a greener through environmentally-friendly practices like reprocessing "single-use" in the (EP) space and beyond. Join AMDR at "Symposium: Sustainability in Cardiac EP" on September 9, 2022, in Bordeaux, France, to learn more: http://ow.ly/oQFA50JTlbg

Meet EP professionals, sustainability experts in the health sector, and others who will share strategies and best practices to reduce our collective . Spaces are limited so register now.

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All top U.S. hospitals and now more UK NHS facilities are embracing “single-use” medical device reprocessing and remanufacturing to decrease , cut waste in the , and save costs. This simple solution offers an easy, immediate way for international governments to advance sustainability goals.

Ministries of Health and other government bodies that regulate single-use medical devices (SUDs) can now access the first-ever Global Regulatory Standards report for SUD and , published by AMDR: http://ow.ly/hSLw50JL6SB

Explore this report of all known regulations, standards, and guidance around this growing, green innovation that protects the health of populations and the planet by reducing their . Get your free copy: http://ow.ly/iXhU50JL6SA

AMDR recently joined Medi-Q, along with leading academics and surgeons, to call on the South Africa (SA) Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) to create clearer guidelines around regulation of single-use (SUDS), highlighting the enormous benefits of more sustainable practices like reprocessing and reman of SUDs that should be embraced now.

Learn how this simple solution greatly increases quality care, giving new tools to break the toxic "take-make-waste" cycle in the medical supply chain, save costs, cut deadly , and fight . Check out Times LIVE with President Daniel J. Vukelich, Esq., CAE:

Medical authority under pressure to re-use costly single-use devices The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority has come under pressure this week to have a clear directive concerning single-use medical devices as more voices join the call for regulation of these apparatuses.

Is your among the 10K+ worldwide that benefits from reprocessing and other innovations? Learn how to join the 2022 Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards program: http://ow.ly/eIL350IP2p8

Participating can help you collect and analyze data to guide green initiatives and boost efficiency. Share how operations strengthen your care delivery system in ways that save costs and protect the environment. Apply by May 4: http://ow.ly/XQjy50IP2p9

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Watch AMDR President and CEO Daniel J. Vukelich's latest interview with DOTmed to learn how medical device reprocessing and other innovations help hospitals cut the that make people and the planet sicker: https://bit.ly/3wUtp5N

The time for more policymakers to take notice and take action is now.

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U.S. Food and Drug Administration-regulated, reprocessed single-use medical devices helped over 10,000 hospitals and surgical centers worldwide divert nearly 12M lb. of medical waste from landfills in 2020, building a more sustainable circular economy in healthcare and paving the way to reach goals. Get the facts in AMDR’s “Reprocessing by the Numbers”: http://ow.ly/7rGF50HF7oW

Explore the advantages of this simple, innovation that strengthens the medical supply chain and protects by reducing deadly .

Remanufacturing single-use medical devices helps a growing number of doctors’ offices and labs provide quality care while reducing costs and medical waste, advancing the circular economy the healthcare industry is moving toward.

Watch 's latest video to see how companies like Northeast Scientific (NES) are creating new opportunities for practices of all sizes worldwide to benefit from the tremendous savings, safety, and green innovation these products offer to the physicians who use them to improve patient outcomes: https://bit.ly/31skrPn

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New research is giving and health providers a roadmap on how they can use technologies such as medical device reprocessing and reman to turn the healthcare sector into a driver of environmental sustainability for other industries to follow.

Check out the Financial Times' recent article, “The climate crisis is also a healthcare crisis,” to explore findings from Health Care Without Harm - Global and learn about opportunities to replace the “take-make-waste” disposable culture of today’s medical supply chain with a more resilient model that reduces and increases quality patient care: https://on.ft.com/3n9e240

The climate crisis is also a healthcare crisis Climate change is a menace to human health — and the medical sector is part of the problem

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Reprocessing single-use reduces hospital waste and increases supply chain resilience, along with cost-savings.

Watch this ABC News story to learn about the Federal Trade Commission’s recent report that spotlights how manufacturers are adding barriers for consumers who try to repair, replace, and reuse products, fueling higher costs, less competition, and more environmental waste: https://bit.ly/3FJ1iIC

From iPhones to tractors, battle over the ‘right to repair’ ABC News’ Elizabeth Schulze reports on the movement for consumers to be able to repair their own products, from iPhones to John Deere tractors, and how Washi...