HHS' Office of Inspector General has issued an advisory opinion in response to a hospital's proposal to offer community physicians and practices free access to an electronic interface, through which they could transmit orders for certain services from the hospital.
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John Handal, MD, is the chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery and director of spine surgery at Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia.
Smith & Nephew has released an extension to the LEGION Total Knee System, featuring implants thinner in the medial and lateral dimension.
Zimmer issued an urgent recall of its PEEK Ardis Inserter, an instrument for implanting the PEEK Ardis Interbody Spacer in the spine.
John Adler, MD, a neurosurgeon from Stanford, launched a medical journal to make research more accessible to the public, according to the Stanford School of Medicine blog Scope.
Surgeons and researchers at the University of California, San Francisco recently extracted data on hospital readmissions following spine surgery at UCSF to determine the reason for the readmissions. They found the number of readmissions attributed to the spine surgeons was…
Matthew Rupert, MD, has joined Spine Treatment Centers of America in Nashville, Tenn.
Spine Pain Management in Houston presented at this year's fifth annual LD MICRO conference held by LD MICRO in Los Angeles, a small firm focused on providing micro-cap research to its clients.
Dan Short, Vice President, Sales for Medical Web Technologies, outlines five major challenges ambulatory surgery centers face and how health information technology platforms can provide an efficient and cost effective solution.
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