Last week the U.S. House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee voted to approve legislation that would exempt cases at ambulatory surgery centers from counting toward meaningful use of electronic health records, according to an ASCA report.
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Blue Belt Technologies announced the first Navio-assisted SIGMA High Performance Unicondylar Knee surgery was successfully performed.
Clarus Eye Centre in Lacy, Wash., has acquired a femtosecond laser, the first in the area, according to a Thurston Talk report.
A new app now allows patients to make an appointment for telemedicine with their physicians for face-to-face video appointments.
Here are five recent news updates on ambulatory surgery center companies.
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Here are seven news updates for ambulatory surgery center leaders to know for March 2, 2015.
St. Cloud (Minn.) Surgical Center has performed the first robotics-assisted partial knee replacement in Minnesota, according to a SCTimes report.
Orthopedic surgeon Jonathan Evans, DO, has been named the medical director of Corvallis (Ore.) Clinic Surgery Center, according to a Corvallis Gazette-Times report.
Jeffery Fischer, MD, of Willmar, Minn.-based Fischer Laser Eye Center, is one of the first surgeons in the Midwest to adopt the Customized Aspheric Treatment Zone LASEK, or CATz LASEK.
Here are six statistics on ambulatory surgery center assets, according to VMG Health's 2012 Intellimarker Ambulatory Surgical Center Financial & Operational Benchmarking Study.