Healthcare loves metrics. Wait times. RVUs. Patient volumes. For Erica Taylor, MD, MBA, an orthopedic hand and upper extremity surgeon at Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health and vice president of health equity for Duke Health Integrated Practice, those numbers are not…
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Historically, growth in spine care was relatively straightforward. Perform more procedures. Build more operating rooms. Expand access to new technologies. Increase volume. A growing number of spine leaders believe that formula is becoming outdated. At Becker’s 23rd Annual Spine, Orthopedic…
Solenic Medical received FDA approval of its investigational device exemption application, allowing the company to launch a pivotal clinical trial of its Sola-2 alternating magnetic field system for patients with periprosthetic joint infections. The study will evaluate the safety and…
Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine received a three-year, $400,000 grant from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation to study how chronic neuropathic pain affects cognitive function in spinal cord injury patients. The study, led by Roberta…
Kinomatic, an AI- and virtual reality-driven orthopedic surgery planning and aftercare company, closed a $4 million seed funding round led by Waterline Ventures and named Andrew Wickline, MD, chief medical officer. The company will use the funding to expand its…
For many patients diagnosed with avascular necrosis, the treatment pathway begins with a troubling reality. The disease is often discovered after damage has already started. Blood supply to the bone becomes compromised. Bone tissue begins to die. Over time, the…
Robots have become central in the future of the orthopedic device market and joint replacement surgery over the last several years. However, as these technologies become more ubiquitous, surgeons have begun questioning their true value in surgical care at a…
Galveston-based University of Texas Medical Branch has selected Brent Bauer, MD, to serve as chief of orthopedic trauma in its department of orthopedic surgery & rehabilitation beginning in the fall. Dr. Bauer will join UTMB from the Largo-based University of…
Smokers. Diabetic patients. Revision cases. Multilevel fusions. These are the patients where reliable fusion is hardest to achieve and where biologic selection carries the most weight. A clinical evidence review brings together more than 10 years of published literature and…
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Orthopedic surgeon John Noble Jr., MD, died June 11 at age 61. Dr. Noble practiced orthopedic surgery in Louisiana for more than three decades and joined the Lake Charles, La.-based Center for Orthopaedics in 2000, according to his obituary. He…