DOTmed August 4, 2020
Many healthcare workers will never take hospital supplies for granted again. Forced reuse of disposable respirators, gowns and face shields have heightened attention to inefficient and wasteful practices in healthcare. COVID’s impact requires immediate attention be given to hospital finances, securing and building a more resilient supply chain and addressing the enormous amount of medical waste created.
We now can hit reset. I imagine a revolution in healthcare where providers insist that medical devices and supplies be designed and built to be reused or reprocessed and ultimately recycled. This transformation requires healthcare providers to adopt a new mindset, that medical devices and supplies are valuable assets, not consumable, disposable, and easily replaced.
From my position representing single-use medical device reprocessors...
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