Most people would not expect one of the nation’s busiest orthopedic trauma surgeons to become a healthcare technology leader. Mara Schenker, MD, an orthopedic trauma surgeon at Emory University and associate chief medical information officer at Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital,…
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The American Medical Association has adopted a new policy supporting physician education on osteoporosis and advocating for expanded insurance coverage of evidence-based osteoporosis screening and treatment. The policy was approved June 9 during the AMA House of Delegates’ annual meeting…
Hinge Health expanded its HingeSelect platform to cover orthopedic surgery, according to a June 10 news release. The move makes Hinge Health one of the first digital musculoskeletal vendors to manage the full care continuum. The expansion connects employer plan…
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans undergo hip and knee replacement surgery. Surgeons can often predict how the operation itself will go. What surgeons have historically struggled to predict is something far more important: how any individual patient will…
Indianapolis-based Indiana Hand to Shoulder Center, an OrthoIndy practice, is the first site to enroll a patient in the first U.S. clinical study of Keri Medical’s total thumb replacement implant. Keri Medical’s Touch CMS 1 prosthesis will be studied in…
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Northwell Health Physician Partners Orthopedics at White Plains in West Harrison, N.Y., has opened, according to a June 4 news release. The $2.36 million, 4,630-square-foot facility has nine exam rooms, onsite imaging and surgical and nonsurgical services. Specialties covered by…
Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates expanded primary and orthopedic care services with a renovated facility in Rensselaer, N.Y., according to a June 5 report by ABC affiliate WTEN. The expansion adds walk-in and same-day primary care access…
Most of healthcare is moving toward consolidation. Travis Doering, MD, is betting the future may move in the opposite direction. After years practicing in a large orthopedic group, the Austin, Texas-based hand, upper-extremity and peripheral nerve surgeon recently launched two…
Kurtis Biggs, DO, an orthopedic surgeon and founder of the Joint Replacement Institute in Naples, Fla., hasn’t written an opioid prescription since July 2025. The achievement is part of his larger efforts to reduce opioid use in patients after surgery,…
A surgeon-led collaborative across 14 Massachusetts hospitals cut spending on several orthopedic supplies while maintaining low infection rates, according to a study published June 3 in The American Journal of Managed Care. Researchers from Boston-based New England Baptist Hospital and…