At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27, Phenelle Segal, RN, CIC, president of Infection Control Consulting Services, shared some infection control best practices and common mistakes in infection control in ASCs.
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At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 29, Scott Becker, JD, CPA, a partner with McGuireWoods in the firm's Chicago office, and Lainey Gilmer, an associate in McGuireWoods' Charlotte office, discussed five key issues currently…
Olympus America has announced it has partnered with Caris Diagnostics, a provider of anatomic pathology services, on a new automated pathology reporting interface, according to an Olympus news release.
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced Shamokin Community Area Hospital in Coal Township, Pa., has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding, according to a Wolters Kluwer Health news release (pdf).
When it comes to managing ambulatory surgery centers, the two areas that require the most management are expenses and the ASC's physicians. Nap Gary, COO of Regent Surgical Health, moderated a discussion with Al McNair, MD, and Steven Schuleman, MD,…
At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27, Ken Crabb of RPT and Steve Schaumberger of JR Katz explained the idea behind restricted property trust and how the investment strategy could pay dividends for physicians.
A new study from University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston suggests patients who suffered in-hospital falls did not move around any more than patients who did not fall.
A University of Wisconsin study found daily walking reduces the risk of age-related macular degeneration eye disease, according to a news release.
This past summer, the anesthesiology department at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine allocated money usually given to its residents to purchase textbooks to purchase iPads, an Anesthesiology News report said.
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif., has submitted a corrective action plan to remedy deficiencies found by federal regulators earlier this year, according to a Los Angeles Times report.