I just read an article about how all of our nation’s hospitals aren’t reprocessing the numerous medical devices that have been approved as safe by the FDA to do so – even though you can save 50% of your medical devices’ original cost.  Wouldn’t you think this was a “no-brainer” for all hospitals?  Here’s the rest of the story!

The reason given in the article on why all hospitals haven’t jumped on the reprocessing bandwagon is that they think it will be too time-consuming to do so because of the numerous internal changes in behavior that would be needed to achieve this savings.

So maybe this reprocessing idea isn’t a “No-Brainer” after all or is it? But how would you know unless you tried it? This is the key for knowing when something is a “No-Brainer” or not. Experiment to find the real answers instead of tuning out the sales rep because his or her “its easy” message seems to implausible to believe.

Nothing good happens unless you are willing to experiment with a pilot study to determine the financial, quality and service fitness of any proposed new product, service or technology. This way, you will know with certainty when something becomes a “No-Brainer” for your healthcare organization — or not.