Picture the months after an AI rollout in patient access: clinicians working around the tool instead of with it, a workflow that looked seamless in the demo now creating new friction and a nagging question about whether patients are actually…
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Before Ziya Gokaslan, MD, enters the operating room, he increasingly wants the operation to have happened once already. Not on the patient, but on a digital model of the patient’s spine. Using medical imaging, surgeons can create a “digital twin,”…
Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedics is planning three new ASCs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, according to a July 9 report from The Philadelphia Inquirer. The organization is currently a partner in nine surgery centers and two surgical hospitals across Pennsylvania and…
Health systems are investing in artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure and new care delivery models faster than they can staff them. The talent required to operate these environments often does not yet exist, and traditional recruiting models were not built to…
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A new study revealed that arthroscopic knee surgery to trim degenerative cartilage tears may actually do more harm than good, according to a July 13 report from CBS News. The research followed patients for 10 years after undergoing the knee…
Lauren Matteini, MD, now approaches many cervical spine cases by trying to disqualify the operation she would prefer to perform. The operation is cervical disc replacement. “In my practice now, I’m trying to find a reason not to do it,”…
A medical office building fully occupied by Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in suburban Cincinnati has sold for $9.9 million, the Cincinnati Business Courier reported July 10. Charlotte, N.C.-based Flagship Healthcare Properties acquired the property at 8099 Cornell Road on…
Much of the durable medical equipment routinely prescribed after cervical spine surgery is not well supported by clinical data, according to an analysis published in the Summer 2026 issue of Vertebral Columns by spine surgeon Arash Sayari, MD, and medical…
Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health and OrthoCarolina have extended their longstanding affiliation to expand orthopedic services. Through the new agreements, Atrium Health’s Musculoskeletal Institute will align with OrthoCarolina, focusing on improving outcomes, patient experience and efficiency, according to a July 13…
For a generation, the hardest question in spine surgery was whether a case could be done at all, and then whether it could be done outside a hospital. Surgeons answered it. Fusions and decompressions once confined to inpatient suites now…
