Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., has received a $3 million grant to expand a program that provides training for anesthesia providers in Kenya, according to a report by The Kansas City Star.
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Nashville, Tenn.-based PhyMed Healthcare Group announced it has entered into a contract to provide anesthesia and pain management services to TriStar Skyline Medical Center in Nashville.
Kit Check, a provider of hospital pharmacy kit automation, announced the launch of Anesthesia Check, a cloud-based software tool to manage and track medications in the operating room.
CMS has released the final regulations containing the changes to the Physician Fee Schedule for 2014, which includes a 20.1 percent reduction in the national average anesthesia conversion factor, according to an Anesthesia Business Consultants blog post.
Melville, N.Y.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia has announced its partnership with Memorial Hospital in York, Pa.
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Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital has added Tiffany Denepitiya-Balicki, MD, an anesthesiologist, to its medical staff, according to a Stamford Plus report.
Anesthesiologists are still more likely to accept all payers than follow the increasing trend of dropping poorly reimbursing payers, according to the Medscape Anesthesiologist Compensation Report: 2013.
Plexus Information Systems, an anesthesia information management system provider, announced that its Anesthesia Touch V4 has been certified as a complete electronic health record system under the Drummond Group's Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Certification Body program.
The global market for anesthesia devices is estimated at $7.4 billion in 2013 and is expected to grow to $8.1 billion in 2014, according to a report released by Research and Markets.
University Physicians of Brooklyn-Anesthesia, the medical faculty of SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York, has selected OpenTempo to deliver staff scheduling and case management solutions.