Cybersecurity breaches are becoming more common among physician practices in addition to hospitals and health systems. In 2020, healthcare data breaches increased 55.1 percent to 599, with 37 out of 50 states reporting more breaches in 2020 than in 2019.
The University of Missouri agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle allegations of false advertising and personal injury connected to the Mizzou BioJoint Center, run by an orthopedic surgeon and veterinarian, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Rochester, N.Y.-based UR Medicine will break ground on a $240 million orthopedic campus at Marketplace Mall in the coming weeks, NBC affiliate WHEC reported March. 4.
A Green Township, Ohio, orthopedic surgeon was sentenced March 1 to 40 months in prison for prescribing an excessive amount of opioids, Cincinnati.com reports.
Spectrum Healthcare Partners, a multispecialty group with more than 200 physicians in South Portland, Maine, installed NextGen Healthcare's EHR system to streamline workflows in its orthopedics division.
Concord (N.H.) Hospital's looming acquisition of LRGHealthcare in Laconia, N.H., has raised concerns about access to orthopedic care in the community, but leaders of the organizations are trying to push the deal through, The Laconia Daily Sun reports.
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