At the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 9, 2011, Greg Deconciliis, administrator at Boston Out-Patient Surgical Suites, gave a presentation titled "Key Tips for Success—Orthopedics in ASCs—What Works and What Doesn't." BOSS…
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The following article is written By Robert Edelstein, CEO of Millennium Surgical Corp./SurgicalInstruments.com. Here are seven of the top challenges surgery centers need to overcome when purchasing surgical instruments.
At the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 10, 2011, Joan F. O'Shea, MD, a neurosurgeon and orthopedic spine surgeon at The Spine Institute of New Jersey, gave a presentation titled "How to…
The Premier Safety Institute, which is a part of Premier, a healthcare alliance of more than 2,300 U.S. hospitals and 64,000 other healthcare sites, offers a downloadable OSHA bloodborne pathogen program assessment tool.
Last Friday, Reed A. Martin, COO of Surgical Management Professionals, and Tom Mallon, CEO of Regent Surgical Health, shared ways to improve physician-owned hospital profits at the Becker’s ASC Review 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management Conference in Chicago.…
Joel Judah, MD, a gastroenterologist at three-physician Georgia Gastroenterology Center in Macon, Ga., recently co-wrote an article in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy titled, "An Endoscopist's Guide to Political Involvement: Because Inaction is no Longer a Reasonable Alternative," which is accessible by subscription…
While office-based pain procedures are not as high paying as they used to be, Nameer R. Haider, MD, founder of Spinal & Skeletal Pain Medicine, had little choice. He operates in upstate New York and Washington, D.C., which are both…
With ambulatory surgery centers facing stricter infection control guidelines and requirements from government and accrediting bodies, Roberta Bannon, RN, MS, a surveyor for Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, says it is critical for ASCs to contract an infection control expert and…
Large sessile colonic polyps can be managed safely and effectively by endoscopic mucosal resection, but previous attempts increase the risk of failure, according to a report in Gastroenterology.
The New York State Attorney General is proposing that physicians be required to report prescriptions on controlled substances, including opioids, to an online database to prevent duplicate prescriptions for the same patient, according to a report by Empire State News.