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MedCity Influencers, Devices & Diagnostics
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.
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MedCity Influencers, Devices & Diagnostics
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.
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Jorie Healthcare CEO Shares Why Automation is Critical to Revenue Cycle Management
The revenue cycle management business is using AI tools to automate cumbersome tasks to help hospitals operate more efficiently. It’s beginning to attract the attention of major healthcare organizations.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
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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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers
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.
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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers, Opinion
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.
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Devices & Diagnostics, MedCity Influencers
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.