Many ASCs have WiFi networks. For clinical applications, WiFi provides convenient network access throughout the patient areas, which allows the clinical staff to access patient records, the materials managers to keep up with supply inventories and providers to retrieve lab…
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Consumer Reports has ranked Animas Surgical Hospital, a physician-owned hospital in Durango, Colo., as the top hospital in the state.
Recent amendments to New Jersey's Codey Law, which prohibits self-referrals by physicians, include a Sept. 17, 2009, deadline which marks the beginning of a moratorium on new ambulatory surgery centers.
A recent, controversial study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that vertebroplasty, a procedure commonly used to treat painful, osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures in which cement is used to fill the cracks, is no more effective than…
Twin Cities Orthopedics, an independent physicians group, is building a new clinic in Edina, Minn., to consolidate three locations in the surrounding area, according to a report in Finance and Commerce.
Stillwater (Okla.) Medical Center Authority has offered to buy Stillwater Surgery Center, a freestanding, outpatient surgery center, for $7 million, according to a report in the Stillwater News Press.
Max Baucus (D-Mont.). Sen. Baucus is the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and has been vocal on many issues concerning healthcare, including developing healthcare reform, protecting Social Security and Medicare and expanding healthcare programs. Born and raised in Montana,…
Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, a Los Angeles-based law firm, has filed a national class action complaint on behalf of Downey (Calif.) Surgical Clinic and other non-contracted ASCs across the country, alleging misuse of the Ingenix database by UnitedHealth to knowingly…
Amkai has announced that it was recently awarded contracts by 11 facilities as part of the company’s "Amkai ASC Stimulus Program," which provided facilities with an affordable subscription price for to the acquisition of the AmkaiOffice management system and AmkaiCharts…
Amkai, a software company with more than 20 years of experience delivering administrative and clinical solutions to ASCs, surgical hospitals and physician practices, and Mavicor, a leading ASC technology management company, have entered into a market services partnership agreement, effective…