More healthcare organizations are seeking partnerships with talented spine surgeons to become designated as a Center of Excellence, which takes an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to care.
Author: Alan Condon
Adventist Health Simi Valley (Calif.) became the first facility in Ventura County to be designated as a Center of Excellence for robotic surgery.
From Tiger Woods' fifth spine surgery to device companies to watch in 2021 and what's next for spine surgery at ASCs, here are the 10 most-read stories on Becker's Spine Review this year:
Ashvin Patel, MD, is leading research on motion-preserving and nonfusion technologies at Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital that could potentially overtake spinal fusion as the standard of care, Florida Trend reported July 15.
The ExcelsiusGPS robot has been used in more than 20,000 spine surgeries globally, the system's developer said July 15.
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NuVasive has lifted a U.S. voluntary ship hold on its Magec system and made a modified Magec X device available for sale, effective July 15.
A spine device that received FDA premarket approval 72 hours before the cessation of elective surgeries in the U.S. in March 2020 has been shown to reduce the chance of disc herniations in patients who have already herniated a disc,…
Robert Arceiro, MD, chief of sports medicine at Farmington-based UConn Health, has been inducted into the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's hall of fame, according to a July 14 news release.
Orthopedic devicemakers are among the biggest spenders in medtech when it comes to payments made to physicians.
Becker's has reported on seven patent infringement cases in 2021 that involve orthopedic device companies and/or surgeons: