Supply Chain

Cleveland Clinic founded its Office for a Healthy Environment in 2007 with the goal of improving sustainability across the health system and has since come up with innovative techniques to manage its medical waste, Waste Today reported. 

Stryker is warning of a safety issue with its Lifepak 15 defibrillators that could prevent the device from delivering a defibrillation shock.

The number of warning letters the FDA sent to medical devicemakers fell by almost 90 percent between 2015 and 2019, and it could be because the FDA is too focused on pleasing the device industry, MedTech Dive reported.  

Digital health company Livongo struck a deal with Dexcom to integrate the devicemaker's continuous glucose monitors into Livongo's system, according to STAT. 

Mavidon is updating a worldwide recall of its skin prepping lotions to include all lots of the products after discovering a bacterial contamination that could cause life-threatening infections.

Georgia officials are charging a medical device sterilization plant in Atlanta $3,000 a day for failing to install new filters to reduce ethylene oxide emissions, according to Medical Design & Outsourcing. 

The FDA needs to do more to quickly and substantially reform its system for reporting adverse events caused by medical devices, two researchers wrote in an editorial published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

More medical devices were recalled in 2019 than in any year since 2014, according to KVUE, an ABC affiliate in Austin, Texas. 

Medtronic has acquired Stimgenics, a Bloomington, Ill.-based company that developed a spinal cord waveform technology designed to treat chronic pain patients, Medtronic announced this week.

Abbott named the current company controller and senior vice president of finance Robert Funck as the new CFO, effective March 1, according to a Jan. 8 Securities and Exchange Commission filing.