GI & Endoscopy

Executives at HIMSS 2018, March 5 to March 8 in Las Vegas, attributed the slow value-based care adoption rate to a lack of standardization, SearchHealthIT reports.

Cantel Medical reported its second quarter fiscal year 2018 results.

Here are four practices and hospitals making headlines this past week.

Here are five gastroenterology companies that made news this last week.

Salt Lake City-based Granite Peaks Gastroenterology is doing its part for Colon Cancer Awareness Month by dispelling common myths associated with colonoscopy.

The FDA, CDC and American Society for Microbiology created a set of voluntary, standardized duodenoscope surveillance sampling and culturing protocols.

Due to higher participation rates, CT colonography screening for colorectal cancer is more cost-effective than colonoscopy screening, according to a study in Radiology.

Fred Fowler, MD, is a gastroenterologist at Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolina Digestive.

Rochester, Minn-based Mayo Clinic's Paul Limburg, MD, is joining Exact Sciences as the company's co-CMO.

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy rebuked a story by Kaiser Health News and USA Today, stressing how millions of procedures have been safely performed in an ASC or hospital setting.