GI & Endoscopy

Bethlehem Pa.-based St. Luke's University Health Network absorbed and rebranded Sellersville, Pa.-based Bux-mont Gastroenterology, Lehigh Valley Business reports.

Ishaan Kalha, MD, is the gastroenterology division chief at Bakersfield, Calif.-based Kern Medical.

Here are four gastroenterologists in the news this week:

Spokane (Wash.) Digestive Center is leaning fully into Washington State's new WAHealthCareCompare website as it embraces price transparency.

Where telemedicine is proving essential in other specialties, it's yet to catch on in gastroenterology, according to an editorial in The Lancet.

Santa Nandi, MD, plans to move her private practice March 12 to another Hicksville, N.Y. location.

Here are the five most-read gastroenterology articles published on Becker's ASC Review this week:

A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine examined the long-term risk of colorectal cancer and related mortality in average-risk patients after a colonoscopy with negative results.

Given the rapid change taking place in healthcare, ASCs may soon face disruption that has as much impact as Amazon's new healthcare venture, according to gastroenterologist Manoj Mehta, MD, medical director of Wilmette, Ill.-based Endoscopy Center of the North Shore.

Researchers supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering are developing virtual training and evaluation tools for colorectal surgeons. The team is working closely with Troy, N.Y.-based Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute