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Outpatient operations in community hospitals increased 30 percent from 1996 to 2016, according to American Hospital Association data shared by Worcester Business Journal.

Exact Sciences' week started with a boom when the FDA expanded its approval for the company's noninvasive colon cancer test Cologuard to include the 45 to 49 age range. 

The FDA cleared six new Fujifilm Medical Systems, U.S.A. endoscopic products.

Atlanta-based Advanced Urology added 10 physicians to the staff of its newly opened Marietta, Ga., office.

Gastroenterology-focused pharmaceutical company Phantom Pharmaceuticals will appoint Terrie Curran as CEO after Celgene Corp. is acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb.

The New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers elected five officers to its board of directors, according to ROI-NJ.

Humana added West Reading, Pa.-based Reading Hospital to its Medicare network, according to the Reading Eagle.

Stephanie Martin, vice president of operations and clinical services for Westchester, Ill.-based ASC manager Regent Surgical Health, shared supply chain tips on Regent's blog.

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses offered tips for sterile processing of medical instruments and devices in ASCs.

Three predictions from reports about the ASC market published recently: