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The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses partnered with MyRounding to create a mobile application to support AORN guidelines.

A new ACO model, called the "Next Generation ACO," will allow participants to assume greater financial risk for greater rewards, according to AAFP.

Analysis of U.S. Census data from the Center for Sustainable Health Spending notes healthcare spending increased 5 percent last year, reports Bloomberg Business, where they note this increase follows five consecutive years of record slow growth for the healthcare industry.

Wearable, mobile health and fitness tracking devices are expected to see huge growth over the few years, but it remains to be seen whether it will result in improved health outcomes, according to a Health Data Management report.

Michael Lipomi, the president and CEO of Surgical Management Professionals, has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, most of which have been devoted to the ambulatory surgery center industry. "Ever since the early 1980s, I have been interested…

A new Leapfrog Group study has found that the survival rate for high-risk surgeries is impacted by the hospital the procedures are performed at, according to an NJSPOTLIGHT report.

Lee Hunter, MD, believed there must be a better way to stabilize a patient's arm during elbow surgery than with towels and nurses. Thus, he developed a prototype for an arm stabilizer, founded Hunter Medical in 2009 and launched the…

The ambulatory surgery center field was very active last year with new transactions and partnerships, according to the HealthCare Appraisers' 2015 ASC Valuation Survey, and the action will likely continue this year.

Tornier, the orthopedic medical device company, recently received FDA clearance to market the Simpliciti Shoulder System. Here are the top four things to know about the device.  

The U.S. FDA launched its first mobile application designed to provide information about drug shortages.