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New York City-based Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers have identified reliable pain predictors by surveying pain severity and patient satisfaction with pain management after patients' hospital stays.
Christopher Chaput, MD, is a spine surgeon and the director of orthopedic research at Temple, Texas-based Scott & White Healthcare. He's also an assistant professor of surgery at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.
Donald Atkins, MD, will be working with the Spine Treatment Centers of America in San Antonio.
HHS and the Department of Veterans Affairs announced a demonstration of standards to allow sensitive health information to be shared responsibly, complying with confidentiality regulations among providers using electronic health records.
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Cox Health, based in Springfield, Mo., has opened a sports medicine center, according to an Ozarks First report.
Methodist Center for Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine at Willowbrook in Houston, Texas, has added a Human Performance Lab on the Methodist Willowbrook Hospital campus.
Saadiq El-Amin, III, MD, PhD, assistant professor of surgery and director of shoulder and sports medicine at Southern Illinois University, has been named team physician at University of Illinois Springfield, according to a State Journal-Register report.