Abiomed will pay $3.1 million to settle allegations that it tried influencing doctors to use its Impella heart pump by treating them to lavish meals, MassDevice.com reports.
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Here are 14 statistics on physician and equity ownership preferences for ASCs. The data is based on the HealthCare Appraisers 2017 ASC Valuation Survey.
Dianne Rawson, RN, is the senior director of Minneapolis-based MHealth Clinics and Surgery Center at the University of Minnesota. She has over 40 years of experience in the perioperative environment, critical care nursing and healthcare industry.
Here are 21 statistics on the percentage of cases performed by the top two, top five and top 10 physicians at facilities across the U.S., based on data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker Study 2017.
The American College of Surgeons provides guidelines to help surgeons improve quality and patient safety in its 2017 manual, Optimal Resources for Surgical Quality and Safety. Here are six strategies the ACS recommends, with details according to McKesson.
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New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers President Jeff Shanton said a report by The Record and NorthJersey.com misrepresents ASCs and the quality of care they provide by using anecdotal information and allegations from ongoing lawsuits. Here are four insights.
Grifols, a producer of plasma-derived medicines, entered a distribution agreement with Henry Schein, which will market and distribute Grifol's 500 milliliter normal saline solution in the U.S.
Covalon Technologies' MediClear PreOp received Frost & Sullivan's 2018 North American Surgical Site Infection Prevention New Product Innovation Award.
AORN Syntegrity and Intelligent Medical Objects partnered to create the PeriopIT technology for operating room scheduling systems and EHRs. Here are five insights.
The use of a Silverlon reduced the incidence of superficial and deep prosthetic joint infection after total joint replacement, a study in the Journal of the Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons found. The Harvard Combined Residency Program conducted the study, and the…