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The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery has announced the best paper winners from ISASS13.  

Highlands Health System in Prestonsburg, Ky., announced the addition of orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician Robert Royalty, MD, to its medical staff.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has partnered with Touch of Life Technologies to develop a virtual reality-based shoulder simulator to train and evaluate orthopedic residents in shoulder arthroscopy surgery, according to a Market Watch report.

Martin Schiavenato, PhD, RN, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar, has invented a machine to assess pain in premature infants and potentially protect them from its negative developmental effects, according to a press release from the foundation.

CMS and OIG have published proposed rules in the Federal Register that seek to extend the existing Stark Law Exception and Anti-Kickback Statue Safe Harbor and make them applicable to the donation of electronic health records through 2016.

Princeton, N.J.-based Regentis Biomaterials has increased the number of sites in its clinical trial of the GelrinC tissue regeneration implant.

The FDA has granted 510(k) clearance to EOS Imaging for its updated sterEOS 3-D imaging software.

At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, in Chicago, Timothy T. Davis, MD, will give a presentation titled "Intradiscal Biologics Injections for Mild to Moderate Degenerative Disc Disease."

CMS and OIG have published an advanced copy of proposed rules that, if enacted, would extend the existing Stark Law Exception and Anti-Kickback Statute Safe Harbor and make them applicable to the donation of electronic health records through 2016.

Spine Center Network was developed by Prizm Development, Inc., two years ago and now acts as a national network of credentialed Spine Centers of Excellence for payors and consumers. Inclusion in the network is based on credentialing criteria that includes…