Practice Management

Here are seven orthopedic surgeons making headlines.

Fort Collins, Colo.-based Banner Health Center completed an expansion and now offers neurosurgery specialists to patients, according to Healthcare Design Magazine.

Philadelphia-based Rothman Institute selected Allscripts PM as its core financial platform.

Woodbury, Minn.-based Summit Orthopedics bought four Carestream DRX-Evolution Plus systems for its new center.

By 2023, the global surgical procedures volume market is expected to reach 2.2 billion procedures annually, growing at a 5.6 percent compound annual growth rate, according to WhaTech.

J.W. Thomas Byrd, MD, and Tania A. Ferguson, MD, merged to form the Nashville (Tenn.) Hip Institute, formerly known as the Nashville (Tenn.) Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center.

Alexander McLawhorn, MD, and Meghan Kirksey, MD, PhD, of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City received a $135,000 grant from the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation to study total joint arthroplasty patient safety and outcomes.

Rutland (Vt.) Regional Medical Center hopes to move forward with an expansion of its flourishing orthopedic, physiatry and ear, nose and throat services, according to VPR.

Independent physician practices spent significantly more on health IT per physician than hospital-owned practices in 2015, according to MGMA's 2017 DataDive Cost and Revenue Survey.

Chicago-based Shriners Hospitals for Children hosted 15 spine surgeons from across the country to share their knowledge and discuss strategies to treat early onset scoliosis.