Bruce Japsen, Contributor As payment to medical-care providers shifts away from fee-for-service medicine and rewards quality over volume, hospital admissions that rose after millions more Americans gained health coverage may soon begin to slow. The name of the game is outreach to patients and making sure they get the right care, in the right place and […]
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • April 20, 2016 A North Carolina orthopedic clinic will pay a $750,000 penalty as part of a breach-related settlement involving the release of 17,300 X-ray films containing protected health information to a vendor without having a business associate agreement in place, as required under HIPAA. The Department of Health […]
Written by Staff | April 20, 2016 Here are 61 ambulatory surgery centers that are spine-focused. Advanced Surgery Center of Sarasota (Fla.). Founded in March 2012, the surgery center offers spine, neurosurgery, orthopedics, joint and podiatry services. The surgery center’s case mix is 55 percent orthopedics. SurgCenter Development is partnered with ASC of Sarasota’s surgeons. […]
By Linda Marsa Whoever described the human body as a marvel of engineering was clearly not talking about the knee. Design-wise, it’s deeply flawed: To function properly, more than a dozen tendons, ligaments, and bones must work in concert. Despite this complexity, the knee rotates in only two directions, forward and backward — great […]
Kalamazoo, Michigan – April 21, 2016 – Stryker Corporation (NYSE: SYK) announced today it has completed the acquisition of the CareFusion vertebral compression fracture (VCF) portfolio of products from BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) in an all cash transaction. The portfolio is comprised of minimally-invasive systems used in vertebroplasty and vertebral augmentation procedures. BD acquired […]
SCOTTSDALE, AZ–(Marketwired – April 18, 2016) – Lattice Biologics Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:LBL) (OTCBB: BLVKF) (Lattice Biologics) to launch three new products utilizing its patent pending matrix-assisted regeneration (MAR) platform. New products, MarBrane andMarGraft (expected to launch in Q2 2016) and MarCell (expected to launch in Q3 2016) are anticipated to significantly accelerate the company’s top line […]
ROSEMONT, Ill., April 21, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A large study of hand and shoulder surgeries performed at a freestanding, outpatient center found few complications—0.2 percent in nearly 29,000 patients over an 11-year period. The study appears in the new issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. Previous studies have documented the benefits of surgery […]
HOUSTON – (April 12, 2016) – Those who make 3-D printed prosthetic hands may come to rely on a printed palm Rice University students developed to help ensure that children get the most out of the devices. The Rice team calling itself Carpal Diem has developed a testing suite to validate how well 3-D printed […]
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