In a survey of surgeons commissioned by the American College of Surgeons, 8.9 percent of respondents said they were concerned they had made a "major medical error" in the past three months, according to an article on the survey in…
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The 2,074-page Senate health reform bill, released Nov. 18, proposes a sweeping set of changes in the Medicare program, according to a report in Health Affairs.
David Schlactus, CEO of Willamette (Ore.) Surgery Center and Hope Orthopedics of Oregon in Salem, Ore., set out his concerns with the House and Senate health reform bills in an opinion piece in the Oregonian.
Stryker has initiated a Class 1 recall of 23 Operating Room System II Surgical Navigation Systems, according to a release from Stryker.
The Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Foundation and Mills-Peninsula Medical Group in Burlingame, Calif., are considering a merger that would create a 1,300 physician group that would cover the Peninsula, Silicon Valley, the East Bay and Santa Cruz areas, according to…
Miller Children's Hospital in Long Beach, Calif., will soon open a new, $200 million inpatient pavilion and pediatric surgery center, according to a report by the Press-Telegram.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Boston-based Caritas Christi Health Care have signed a five-year contract that would pay hospitals on a global payment system opposed to the current fee-for-service system, according to a report in the Boston Globe.
Mednet, an ASC software development company, has launched an iPhone application that can be used in combination with its existing ASC management application, OASIS, and its inventory management application, MIRA, according to a Mednet news release.
Weitzel-Kern Surgery Center at Fremont (Ohio) Memorial Hospital recently added Aleeta Somers-DeHaney, MD, a board-certified anesthesiologist, to its staff, according to a report by the News-Messenger.
A majority of medical liability premiums has remained stable or dropped in 2009, according to a Medical Liability Monitor survey cited in a report by AMEDNews.