Orthopedic surgeons R. Alexander Creighton, MD, of the University of North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill and Clifford Wheeless, MD, at Duke Raleigh Hospital, have performed joint reconstructions using new instrumentation and ceramic bone fillers from KARL STORZ, according…
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Prospira PainCare in Mountain View, Calif., has signed an agreement to deploy cloud-based practice management, cloud-based patient communication and electronic health record services of athenahealth in Watertown, Mass., according to an Equities report.
State Republican Rep. Tom Weldon of Ringgold, Ga., announced that he will sponsor a bill in this session of the state legislature regarding pain management clinics, according to a report by The Catoosa County News.
Susan Charkin, MPH, is the founder and president of Healthcents, a Salinas, Calif.-based medical provider contracting company, where she helps healthcare providers and ambulatory surgery centers negotiate favorable reimbursements and contracts with HMOs, PPOs, worker's compensation organizations and other payors.
Buffalo (N.Y.) VA Medical Center notified Congress that insulin pens were reused at the hospital, putting more than 700 patients at risk for infection, according to a Buffalo News report.
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Facilitators, or quality improvement coaches, and care managers are key roles in a primary care team, according to a special report in Annals of Family Medicine.
Healthgrades announced 262 hospitals received the 2013 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence, which recognizes superior performance in a range of procedures.
The Joint Commission announced it is seeking comments on its "Proposed 2014 National Patient Safety Goal on Alarm Management."
The American Hospital Association's Health Research & Educational Trust announced (pdf) it has been awarded two contracts by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to improve surgical and primary care.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued its recommended core set of health home quality measures to states, according to an AHA News Now report.