ThedaCare Orthopedics Plus at ThedaCare Physicians-Shawano (Wis.) announced the addition of Clay Canaday, DO, to its team.
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Wausau, Wis.-based The Bone & Joint Center announced the opening of a walk-in clinic at its Wausau location, according to a Central Wisconsin Business report.
The Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation in Annandale, Va., has awarded the UW Medicine Division of Pain Medicine in Seattle a five-year, $500,000 grant, according to a News-Medical report.
Standardized clinical assessment and management plans are an alternative to clinical practice guidelines that reduce practice variability while allowing for physicians to adapt practices when appropriate, according to a study in Health Affairs.
Individualized scorecards for obstetricians were associated with fewer cesarean section surgical site infections, according to a study by researchers at Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health System.
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A checklist for robotic surgery lowered hospital readmissions, according to a study by researchers at Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health System.
Communication with nurses may account for up to 15 percent of hospitals' value-based purchasing incentive payments, according to a Press Ganey report.
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Dan Sougstad is the market and product growth director of Wolters Kluwer Health, a Philadelphia-based information and services company. Mr. Sougstad has worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, OptumHealth and the Pangea Group.
At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, in Chicago, James Lynch, MD, FRCSI, FAANS, will give a presentation titled "The Quantum Shift in Orthopedic and Spinal Implant Surgery."