In 2000, the FDA began to view and regulate all companies reprocessing single-use medical devices in the same way it viewed and regulated original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Before returning ...

Madison (Wis.) Surgery Center's strong commitment to being eco-friendly spurred the surgery center to begin using single-use device reprocessing, which also accrued substantial cost savings for the ...

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 ...

“By reprocessing single-use devices with Stryker, they’re able to get back devices that are substantially predicate to the intended use by saving roughly half the cost of purchasing that ...

It is estimated that the healthcare industry would save nearly $2 billion every year if just one or two percent of devices marked “single-use” by device manufacturers were able to be ...

In November 1977, the FDA issued Compliance Policy Guide 300.500 that described the current regulatory responsibility for hospitals that were reprocessing single-use medical devices: Hospitals ...

The chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform has asked the Food and Drug Administration for information about how it oversees the reuse of single-use medical devices and requested that ...

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.

WAMC initiated the single-use device reprocessing program in 2008 as a cost-saving measure and to reduce the amount of waste being generated.

Among these initiatives, single-use device reprocessing stands out as an environmental practice that not only dramatically reduces the amount of medical waste, but, at the same time, it frees ...

Recalls of home-based medical devices and defective single-use devices are the top two concerns on the Pennsylvania-based non-profit's top 10 technology hazards for 2023.