Robert Hotchkiss, MD, board-certified hand surgeon, recently performed thumb surgery on the New York Giants offensive tackle David Diehl, according to a National Football Post report.
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James Andrews, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon, performed successful elbow surgery on the WWE wrestler John Cena, according to a Fansided report.
At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Marcia Patrick, RN, MSN, CIC, and Marsha Wallander, RN, will give a presentation titled "Does Your Infection Prevention Program Meet Survey Requirements?"
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced an investment of approximately $75.8 million through the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases Cooperative Agreement to help states respond to infectious diseases.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers a free hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism prevention guide to help hospitals implement prevention strategies and improve patient safety.
If recently introduced legislation passes in Illinois, physicians will have to verify their academic, employment and disciplinary records through an independent service before being given a license in the state, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
The American Health Information Management Association is now gearing its ICD-10 training toward clinicians, according to HealthData Management.
Members of the public have until 5 p.m. Sept. 4 to give CMS feedback as to when and how the regulatory agency should disclose how much individual physicians receive from Medicare, according to a Medscape report.
In a KevinMD blog post, John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, discusses five ways in which Google Glass can help clinicians and caregivers improve quality of care and patient safety.
Most physicians report that while the experience of being sued was bad, it did not affect them financially or emotionally in the long-term, according to Medscape's Malpractice Report, released in 2013.