The lifespan of medical devices is growing longer as more and more hospitals are turning to device reprocessing to cut costs, reduce waste and maximize potential use of these items. Millions of single ...

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 ...

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 ...

The established environmentalism mantra of “reduce, re-use, recycle” opened the door for medical device manufacturers to roll out recycling programs under the guise of sustainability efforts. But, in ...

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 ...

The ASC Association has announced that a free toolkit on single-use device reprocessing is now available from the Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Collaboration. There are two toolkits available: a ...

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 ...

Healthcare systems worldwide are operating under increasingly stringent infection control frameworks, compelling hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and specialty clinics to modernize device ...

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 ...

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.