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Serving as the president of Massachusetts Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers and administrator of Boston Out-Patient Surgical Suites, Gregory DeConciliis says Massachusetts can very well be defined as a hospital-driven town.

Here are seven healthcare updates for ASC leaders to note:

Jeany Dunaway, RN, administrator of Effingham (Ill.) Ambulatory Surgery Center discusses ASC workflow and efficiency tools to maximize center operations.

Bonnie Uytengsu donated $10 million to Palo Alto, Calif.-based Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford to further the development of the health system's surgery center, the Almanac News reports.

Here are the top 10 articles featured on Becker's ASC Review for the week of July 3 to July 7.

Technology is remaking healthcare.

Louisville, Ky.-based Bennett & Bloom Eye Centers performed the first Implantable Miniature Telescope operation in the region, according to Wave 3 News.

CMS recently released its Open Payments data for 2016, which detailed the payment amounts companies made to physicians and teaching hospitals in 2016.

Orthopedic surgeon Lance Silverman, MD, was among the first surgeons in Minnesota to perform synthetic cartilage joint replacements on a patient's big toe, according to Sun Current.

Although a major element of a complex infection control strategy, environmental cleaning is often overlooked in outpatient facilities. These facilities often do not have the proper infrastructure or resources necessary to implement a complex or standardized environmental cleaning program.