In 2018, hospitals were spending $83 billion per year on new medical equipment. The amount of plastics, metals, greenhouse gas emissions, and water wasted to produce these necessary, life-saving pieces of equipment is astronomical. At ZRG Medical we reduce the amount of waste going to the landfills and the environmental impact of medical equipment production …
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When to Decommission Medical Equipment
The market size of medical device manufacturing in the US in 2020 is $47.1 billion dollars.It has been documented that hospitals discard billions of dollars annually in medical equipment. When we decommission medical equipment it usually has been determined End of Life by a letter from the OEM manufacture. This forces the hospital to purchase …