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According to the VMG Health 2008 Intellimarker, here are the average revenues per case for ophthalmology procedures.

Here’s what the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association President Kathy Bryant thinks are the four top challenges facing ASCs as they enter the new year.

Hospitals in the South Bay region of California are reporting decreases in elective surgeries while surgery centers are reporting increases, according to a report from the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

If your healthcare IT system crashed or was damaged, say in a natural disaster, what would you do? Your business data, clinical data, e-mail, and other documents and correspondence — all gone (at least temporarily). Are you prepared? I wish…

Deaconess Hospital in Cincinnati will open a new spine center in January, according to the Business Courier of Cincinnati.

Here are seven observations from medical architect Raymond Fox of Raymond Fox & Associates about what he expects to see in the ASC market in the near future.

Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that healthcare IT vendor research firm KLAS has named the ProVation MD software, from Wolters Kluwer's ProVation Medical brand of products, as No. 1 in the "Clinical Procedure Documentation" category of the 2008 Top 20…

SourceMedical, a provider of outpatient information management solutions, has announced that Medline Industries has become a charter member of SourcePlus PurchaseConnection (PCX), an advanced eProcurement portal, according to a company press release.

The cost to treat the top six most common cardiovascular conditions such as heart attacks and clogged arteries cost U.S. hospitals $57.9 billion in 2006 — about 40 percent more than in 1997, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research…

Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, Ill., has opened a new 17,000-square-foot ambulatory and endoscopy center, according to a press release from the hospital.