Anesthesia

Audio-Digest Foundation announced the release of "Anesthesiology Volume 55, Issue 41: Abnormal Placentation/ Nerve Injury."

Patient health data breaches can cost healthcare providers and legal business associates up to $1.5 million for violations of a single HIPAA provision, and the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, which took effect on Sep. 23, 2013, changed the definition of what…

An endotracheal extubation training video produced by Boston Medical Center anesthesiologist, Rafael Ortega, MD, and his colleagues is featured in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, according to a Medical Xpress report.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists has joined seven pain medicine specialty societies in formally urging CMS to stop the implementation of steep cuts to physician payments for Interlaminar Epidural procedures.

The International Anesthesia Research Society has made $600,000 in grant funding available through the IARS Mentored Research Awards.

In an Anesthesia Business Consultants blog post, Tony Mira discusses the growth of the telemedicine and telehealth industry as well as the role of telemedicine in anesthesiology.

Medical Billing Specialists, an anesthesia management company, announced that it has teamed up with Survey Vitals to provide anesthesia practices with a quality improvement program.

Vanila M. Singh, MD, a clinical associate professor of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine at Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine, announced that she will run for Northern California's 17th Congressional District seat, according to a SF Gate report.

Williamsville, N.Y.-based InvisionHealth announced that Thomas O'Connor, MD, has joined its medical staff as the chief of anesthesiology.

Here are four anesthesiology practice mergers and acquisitions that occurred within the last month.