Spine

Avant-Garde Health shared its Healthcare Research All-Stars 2024 list, which recognizes top surgeons and hospitals across 10 specialties, including spine surgery.

Cyberattacks have been at the forefront of healthcare leaders' minds in recent months after the wide-scale Change Healthcare incident. 

Healthgrades recently released its rankings for the best hospitals in the U.S. for spine surgery, including 12 in Florida. 

Outpatient spine procedures grew among Medicare patients between 2010 and 2021, with significant yearly growth at ASCs, according to a study in the March 2024 issue of the North American Spine Society Journal.

Forbes' released its 38th annual World's Billionaires list, and it includes eight people connected to spine and orthopedic businesses and care.

Chester Donnally, III, MD, of Addison-based Texas Spine Consultants, is partnering with Mymedicalimages for diagnostic imaging.

Minimally invasive sacroiliac joint fusions have grown in popularity since 2015, according to a study in the April issue of Spine.

Here are three advancements in spinal fusions that spine and orthopedic leaders should know:

Ascension St. Vincent Evansville (Ind.) has added the physicians and staff of Evansville-based Midwest Neurological to its medical group, according to an April 1 report from WFIE.

Approximately 12% of neurologists are feeling so burned out that they plan to leave medicine because of it, according to Medscape's 2024 "Neurologist Burnout and Depression Report," published March 29.