1. Midtown Surgery Center announced the first-ever use of robotics during a total extra-peritoneal hernia repair, according to a statement, performed by Mark Reiner, MD, and Brian Katz, MD.
2. The annual hospital EHR poll conducted by Black Book Market Research found hospitals with over 250 beds ranked Allscripts Sunrise platform number one for the second consecutive year as top inpatient electronic health record.
3. Julio Davalos, MD, head of Chesapeake Urology's Kidney Stone Disease Program, is performing a tubeless percutaneous nephrolithotomy which treats large kidney stones that are untreatable using an ESWL.
4. According to a new 2014 CAQH Index, U.S. healthcare could save $8 billion annually by transitioning six routine business transactions (claim submission, eligibility and benefit verification, prior authorization, claim status inquiries, claim payment and remittance advice transactions) from manual to electronic.
5. The global infection control market is expected to be worth $14 billion by 2017, according to a MarketsandMarkets report.
6. Two Congressmen introduced the Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2015 in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to ASCA.
7. Mark Cuban spoke with MedCity News about healthcare investing, saying the direct-to-consumer market is hot, sensor technology is growing, he is enthusiastic about companies that cut out traditional providers and big data analytics is a game changer.