Mazor Robotics has launched the C-OnSite enhancement for its Renaissance robotic-guided spine surgery system.
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Medtronic announced it would eliminate 1,000 jobs, with 250 of those jobs from the Twin Cities, according to a Pioneer Press report.
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Paul Slosar, MD, is a spine surgeon and president of SpineCare Medical Group at the San Francisco Spine Institute.
As society becomes increasingly electronic, data breaches are a major problem for many organizations. Concern for data breaches in the healthcare industry is especially prevalent because of the variety of protected information hospitals and health systems handle. In addition, healthcare…
The Health Care Service Corporation, the parent corporation for the Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans for Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas issued a new draft policy for lumbar spinal fusions.
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Although overall physician engagement took a slight hit last year, more physicians in 2011 believed their organizations would be successful in the coming years compared with 2010, according to results from "The State of Staff Physician Engagement: 2011 in Review."