Stryker has launched a computer-assisted surgery system, Stryker ADAPT for the Gamma3 Locking Nail System, for hip surgery.
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The FDA has approved Baxano to market its new iO-Tome device for spinal fusion applications.
Recently the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery formed an advocacy arm, the International Advocates for Spine Patients.
North Fulton Hospital outside Atlanta opened a 52,000-square-foot medical building for outpatient spine care, pain management and imaging, according to Patch.
Jonathan Hott, MD, is a board-certified neurological surgeon at the John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix.
Roughly 56 percent of hospitals have a physician compensation governance structure, and that number is expected to rise as more physicians become hospital employees, according to a survey from consulting and compensation firm Yaffe & Company (pdf).
CMS released the stage 2 final rule for meaningful use in August 2012. For hospitals that started the meaningful use process in 2011, they will not be required to begin reporting against the stage 2 requirements until July 1, 2014.…
Four spine surgeons discuss where spine research is headed in the future.
At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Larry D. Taylor, President and CEO of Practice Partners in Healthcare, and Sean McNally, CEO of Moore Clinic will give a presentation titled "Key Relationships Between ASCs & Hospitals."
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, chairman of the American Society for Interventional Pain Physicians, was recently featured in an Every Day Health report discussing the recent fungal meningitis outbreak from contaminated steroid injections from a compounding pharmacy.