Stryker reported 1.3 percent net sales growth in the first quarter of 2013, but net earnings decreased 13.1 percent when compared with the first quarter of 2012.
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RTI Biologics reported an 8 percent drop in first quarter revenue for 2013 when compared with 2012, due to weakness in the sports medicine, bone graft substitutes and the general orthopedic businesses.
Here are five quick and easy ways to grow spine practice patient volume.
Brendan Flanigan is the regional manager of gloStream, a full service billing, collections, EHR, and practice management company. Here he shares how to use EHR effectively in spine and orthopedic practices and why the switch makes sense.
New York-based Retrophin, a pharmaceutical company, has named Horacio Plotkin, MD, its chief medical officer, effective May 13, according to a Fort Mills Times report.
Joseph A. Bosco III, MD, was elected to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons board of directors at its 2013 Annual Meeting in Chicago, March 19-23, according to an AAOS News Now report.
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, and Joshua A. Hirsch, MD, have been published in a special issue of Harvard Health Policy Review on assessing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
A recent EHR Intelligence report identified five steps to ensure organizations' electronic health record system replacement processes are successful. They are:
Pietro Tonino, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon, has conducted a study of a three-dimensional system designed to detect the disruption of scapulo-humeral rhythm in baseball pitchers, which can lead to shoulder injuries, according to an AZOsensors report.
The Methodist Willowbrook Hospital in Houston recently hosted professional soccer team Houston Dynamo.