Reprocessing means collecting used single-use medical devices, shipping them to a regulated reprocessor, and buying them back at 30% to 50% discount to a new device.

After a procedure, single-use devices are wiped down and sometimes flushed, then collected from the hospital and shipped to our partner, Innovative Health. The devices are sorted and identified to ensure they are cleared for reprocessing. Each device is labeled with a unique serial number to ensure traceability. The devices then go through a proprietary cleaning process. Following this, they are tested using validated and approved testing equipment to ensure functionality. After a thorough inspection of the reprocessed devices, they are sterilized and quarantined until all sterilization tests are successfully completed.

Only then are devices available for ordering by the hospital. Upon ordering, devices are shipped to the healthcare facility in convenient and protective packaging.

The entire process must be described and documented in a submission to Health Canada. After careful review, Health Canada grants a clearance to Innovative Health to reprocess the device. The clearance effectively means that the reprocessed device functions the same as a new device and does not pose added patient risk.

To be an effective reprocessing partner to the hospital, our partner Innovative Health invests heavily in R&D as well as in regulatory and clinical resources. Since Innovative Health specializes in a specific clinical area, they can focus on developing new reprocessing technologies and methodologies, thereby getting clearances for increasingly complex devices that will increase savings for the hospital. In recent years, cardiology reprocessing clearances in the USA have come almost exclusively from Innovative Health.

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