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 ...

This article is written by Jason Wandersee, CEO of MEDISISS, a Medline-owned reprocessing company. MEDISISS is the leader in reprocessing to surgery centers throughout the United States since 1997. By ...

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 ...

With supply costs as one of the top two expenses for surgery centers (staffing is the other), more and more ASCs are purchasing reprocessed devices, which help to reduce costs, among other benefits.

The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation published an infection control survey tool focused on reprocessing of medical devices. The survey covers reprocessing of semi-critical ...

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 ...

The European Commission this week issued regulations establishing common specifications for the reprocessing of single-use medical devices under the Medical Device Regulation (MDR). Under MDR, ...

Medical device reprocessing is the backbone of the medical industry, and global standards continue to shift in this highly volatile field. Some of the key changes to watch for in the medical device ...

The European Commission (EC) on Tuesday set forth the common specifications (CS) for the reprocessing of single-use medical devices under the EU’s medical device regulation (MDR). The EC is proposing ...