Lyft can help patients easily travel to and from ASCs and physician offices, according to Jill Angelone, Lyft's manager of healthcare partnerships.
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Patient consumerism will play an important role in ASC procedure volume growth over the next five years, when the ASC market is projected to reach up to $55 billion in value, according to a report from business intelligence company Research…
The global ASC market is projected to grow from $75.2 billion in 2018 to $120.8 billion by the end of 2026, according to a report from Million Insights.
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Hundreds of thousands of files containing patient information and procedure photos were stored in an improperly secured database owned by NextMotion, a technology firm that provides imaging and patient management services to plastic surgery clinics and centers, Bleepingcomputer reports.
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Atlas Surgical Group — one of the St. Louis metropolitan area's largest private surgical groups — began making ASC ownership a priority over a decade ago, betting that healthcare in the U.S. was headed in an outpatient-focused direction.
UnitedHealthcare is the largest insurer in the U.S. by membership, according to VeryWell health.
Machine learning tools effectively identified patients at greater risk for readmission, according to a study published in Anesthesiology and highlighted by the UCLA Anderson Review.
The ASC industry turned 50 on Feb. 12, according to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association.
Elmwood Park, N.J.-based Phillips Eye Center was locked down Feb. 12, after an employee found a bullet taped to his locker, the Daily Voice reports.