Europe’s Promising (But Rocky) Path to Embracing Single-Use Device Reprocessing
A proposed amendment to existing legislation could create centralized and harmonized rules for single-use device reprocessing across all EU member countries.
The Quiet Monopolies Driving Up Healthcare Costs
Monopolistic practices often fly under the radar, but they take a steep toll in many areas of healthcare. Here are four types of hidden costs we need to consider.
The Hidden Administrative Tasks Draining Small Practices
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
Health Systems’ Escalating Demands for Supply Chain Resilience Have Become Counterproductive
Our industry must guard against the weaponization of supply chain resilience in healthcare purchasing.
How the Move of Ablation Procedures into Surgery Centers Will Transform Electrophysiology
Within a matter of months, we’re likely to see substantial growth in the number of EP ablation procedures performed in surgery centers outside the hospital. Here’s what we can expect.
Medical Device Recycling Programs Are Manufacturer Money-Grabs Disguised as Sustainability Initiatives
Hospitals would be much better served by focusing on reuse and reprocessing programs. So why isn't that happening and what can be done about it?
Is Europe About to Overtake the U.S.’s Leadership Position in Healthcare Sustainability via Reprocessing?
FDA’s regulation of single-use device reprocessing effectively made the U.S. the leader in EP sustainability efforts early on. However, very little has been done to build on this early leadership.
The Power Behind Enterprise EHR Software for Large Healthcare Systems
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
New Healthcare Climate Initiatives Lack Teeth, But They’re Paving the Way
Hospitals and hospital systems need to make clearer and more consistent demands for climate accountability from their suppliers, and they need to follow through with preferred green vendor programs and the like.
Medtech Manufacturers Thrive While Hospitals Shutter—and Patients Suffer. Here’s What Needs to Be Done
Right now, manufacturers are thriving. Hospitals are failing. And patients are suffering. We must stop this trend in its tracks by becoming better stewards of hospital resources and supply chains.
Reprocessing beyond cost savings: Growing supply chain resilience
Designing devices for re-use remains a more resilient solution for supply disruption in healthcare devices. But until manufacturers consistently pursue this strategy, single-use device reprocessing can provide the benefits associated with a circular economy solution.
As the pandemic wanes, challenges abound for U.S. healthcare systems
Although some short-term problems—like a lack of ICU beds to treat Covid-19 patients—have abated, deeper issues have emerged that represent long-term challenges for U.S. health systems.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Why the right-to-repair conversation needs to extend further
President Joe Biden's July executive order supported the repair and reuse of many different products but excluded that for healthcare products. It is disappointing that the President’s order ignores established healthcare re-use practices that pose no elevated patient risk and follow manufacturer standards.
Healthcare must move toward a circular economy, and single-use device reprocessing offers a template to follow
In healthcare, the linear (take-make-dispose) approach to consumption is even more pronounced than in American culture in general. It's time for change.
Takeaways from the Heart Rhythm Society’s annual conference
The Heart Rhythm Society's annual meeting is dominated by the presence of electrophysiologists and is a key event that brings the great clinical minds of our generation together to share real-world practices and success.