Collaborative for Healthcare Action to Reduce MedTech Emissions (CHARME)
About CHARME
CHARME is a two-year action collaborative that convenes 35 health systems, medical device and equipment suppliers, distributors, GPOs, and industry experts and stakeholders to define, implement, and champion best practices to reduce emissions from the MedTech supply chain.
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Strengthening Health Sector Supply Chains
CHARME addresses a gap in current initiatives focused on health sector supply chain sustainability. Greenhouse gas emissions from medical devices and supplies account for 7% of the health sector’s US footprint.
Multi-stakeholder collaboration is needed to decarbonize at the pace and scale required, and working together provides efficiencies and innovation no single company can achieve alone.
Through CHARME, teams of sustainability, finance, supply chain, product management, engineering, marketing, clinical, and infection prevention leaders work together to implement actions along a 24-month decarbonization roadmap defined in the white paper Catalyzing Collective Action to Decarbonize Healthcare Roadmap for Health Systems and MedTech Suppliers, published in May 2023 with input from over 30 organizations.
CHARME Publications
CHARME participants have collaboratively authored three publications available for health sector leaders to put into action. The toolkits and playbooks are designed to support practical, low-risk, and high-impact strategies that lower costs, reduce waste, and strengthen healthcare supply chains without disrupting care.
Workstreams
CHARME participants work together to launch and lead impactful pilot projects across five workstreams:
