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In a KevinMD blog post, Rosemarie Nelson a principal at MGMA Health Care Consulting Group, discusses seven ways to optimize electronic health record implementation and use.

Here are seven orthopedic and spine device that recently received FDA approval or were recently launched.

San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, N.M., announced the establishment of a neuro-spine program, headquartered at San Juan Health Partners Neurosciences in Farmington.

Macon, Ga.-based The Nexus Medical Group opened The Nexus Pain Center of Albany (Ga.), according to an Albany Herald report.

Disc replacement surgeries may be more effective in the short term than spinal fusion for treating degenerative disc disease, according to a recent study in the ANZ Journal of Surgery.

Engineers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla have designed a bioactive glass implant that can grow new bone, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

Chippewa Falls, Wis.-based Chippewa Valley Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Clinic has opened a new location in Altoona, Wis., according to a Leader Telegram report.

This week, Craig Westin, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician of Illinois Bone & Joint Institute in Chicago, is at Champs Camp in Colorado Springs, Colo., to examine the skaters of the U.S. Figure Skating team.

David Roye, MD, St. Giles Professor of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at Columbia University, Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Director of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York and Executive Medical Director of the Columbia…

Here are seven things for spine surgeons to know for Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013.