GI & Endoscopy

Brattleboro (Vt.) Memorial Hospital has acquired the Olympus EVIS EXERA III video endoscopy system, according to a VT Digger report.

UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles is planning to install a new scope cleaning machine from Langford IC Systems on a trial basis, according to the Los Angeles Times.

EGD is used for the management of gastroesophageal reflux disease, but the frequency of the procedures performed may not match with the recently clarified guidelines from the American College of Physicians.  

Modernizing Medicine has signed a definitive agreement to acquire gastroenterology EHR company gMed.

Leonard B. Stein, MD, is medical director of the Long Island Center for Digestive Health in Garden City, N.Y. He also serves as clinical assistant professor of medicine at State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a…

Barstow (Calif.) Health Partners added Ann Lee, MD, according to a Desert Dispatch report.

Seth Gross, MD, a gastroenterologist with NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, weighed in on whether new colonoscopy technologies are helpful or over-hyped in an issue of AGA Perspectives.

The average resident salary in 2015 is $55,400, according to Medscape's Residents Salary & Debt Report 2015.

Here are five recent news updates on key gastroenterology and endoscopy companies.

Berkshire Health System, based in Pittsfield, Mass., has added gastroenterologist Jason Bratcher, MD, to its medical staff at Berkshire Medical Center, according to an iBerkshires.com report.