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In a letter to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the American Hospital Association expressed its support for much of ONC's Health Information Technology Patient Safety Action and Surveillance Plan, but urged an increased focus on…

CMS has released a request for information on the overlap of physicians' quality reporting requirements for federal and non-federal programs.

Frank B. Kelly Jr., MD, has received the Arthritis Foundation's first Hugh C. McLeod III, MD, Award of Excellence, according to a report in AAOS Now.

Allis Kim, MD, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon, has joined the staff of Marlborough (Mass.) Hospital.

Fred Davis, MD, is the co-founder of Michigan Pain Consultants in Grand Rapids and the co-founder and president of ProCare Research, a company focused on capturing and analyzing outcomes of medical treatments. He is also a clinical assistant professor at…

A Kaiser Permanente study has found that men taking long-acting opioid medications for chronic pain are nearly five times more likely to have low testosterone levels that those taking an equivalent dose of short-acting opioids.

Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, Mass., has announced that Simon Faynzilberg, MD, will be the medical director of its comprehensive pain center, according to a Newburyport Daily News report.

The New Jersey Health Foundation announced that it has received a $2 million endowment to establish a chair in honor of orthopedist Fred Behrens, MD, in the department of orthopedic surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New…

New Hampshire Children's Trust announced that Thomas Barton, MD, an orthopedic surgeon, has joined its board of directors.

DeRoyal and Remotec are using additive manufacturing to create custom orthopedic implants through 3-D printing at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, according to Knoxville Biz.