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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.

New legislation (HB 999 and SB 1394) could allow ambulatory surgery centers in Florida to take on 23-hour stays.

The copy-and-paste function is frequently used within electronic health records, but the improve efficiency must be weighed against the risk of potential errors. Here are four actions to consider for the prevention of these types of errors, according to a…

Preoperative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus decontamination decreased the surgical site infection rate by more than 50 percent among patients undergoing elective orthopedic surgery with hardware implantation, according to a study published in JAMA Surgery.

The Congressional Budget Office has updated the baseline budget projections it published earlier in the year, and included in the changes is updated estimations of the budgetary effects of the major provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

GOJO Industries, a hand hygiene company and inventor of PURELL Hand Sanitizer, has joined the National Patient Safety Foundation in an effort to promote awareness during Patient Safety Awareness Week.

According to a Global Healthcare report, there are five key concepts with the potential to revolutionize Western medicine.