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John I. Allen, MD, MBA, national quality advisor for Minnesota Gastroenterology in St. Paul, Minn., will assume the position of clinical chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., on April 1.

Three ophthalmologists of the Eye Clinic of Texas have been named "Best Doctors" in a peer survey that rates them in the top 5 percent of U.S. physicians, according to a news release.

Scott Becker, JD, CPA, is a partner in the national law firm McGuireWoods in Chicago. He is the co-chairman of the McGuireWoods' Health Care Department and provides counsel on healthcare transactional and regulatory issues to hospitals, health systems, hospital chains,…

To fully and properly implement ICD-10, healthcare practices will need more detailed information and increased cooperation from physicians, according to Advance.

Federal investigators are looking into an exceedingly high rate of Lucentis prescriptions and procedures performed by Salomon Melgen, MD, the West Palm, Fla., ophthalmologist who is tied up in political scandal with Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), according to a report…

Burbank, Calif.-based Health Data Vision raised $2.8 million through a Series A funding round and will put the funds toward developing new software and services for medical records and billing, according to SoCal Tech.

The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert for opioid overuse consequences and urged hospitals to take measures to avoid patient complications and death, according to The Hospitalist.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston has agreed to pay $7 million to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit, according to the Boston Globe.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston offers a free toolkit for healthcare providers to implement patient safety rounds.

Sayre, Pa.-based Guthrie Healthcare System's Corning (N.Y.) Hospital informed 236 patients that a nurse's incorrect use of a single-use saline syringe may put them at risk for infection, according to a Star Gazette report.