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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality developed a resource intended to help healthcare providers improve the patient experience.

Healthmark Industries has announced the launch of a new website — HeathmarkGI.com — which is focused specifically on products that help endoscopy centers manage proper reprocessing of their scopes.

ViewRay has announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its MRI-guided radiation therapy system, according to a news release.

Teleflex has announced it has received FDA 501(k) clearance for its Arrow FlexTip Plus closed tip, multi-port epidural catheter, according to a news release.

Here are 10 benchmarking statistics on net revenue for pain management cases in the ASC setting, according to data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.

Amerinet has announced a new agreement with OEC Medical Systems, a GE Healthcare business, for the OEC 9900 Elite Digital C-Arm, according to a news release.

Wolters Kluwer Health has announced the Center for Ambulatory Surgery in West Seneca, N.Y., has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding, according to a news release.

Yousuf Sayeed, MD, is a pain management physician with The Spine Center at DuPage Medical Group and Edward Hospital, both in Naperville, Ill.

Limited English proficiency patients who received interpretation at hospital admission and/or discharge had shorter lengths of stay than LEP patients who did not receive interpretation, according to a study in Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Patients with healthcare-associated infections have a higher risk of being readmitted to a hospital after discharge compared with patients without an infection, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.