Bemidji, Minn.-based Lake Region Bone and Joint Surgeons has merged with Sanford Health, based in Fargo, N.D., and Sioux Falls, S.D., according to a Sanford Health news release.
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Study results showed prescribers and healthcare workers recognized the benefits and generally expressed positive attitudes after successfully adopting e-prescribing, according to research published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
Patient advocates, policy experts and physicians offer conflicting opinions on the emergence of opioid contracts, used by pain physicians to ensure patients do not abuse or sell their opioid prescriptions, according to a Washington Post news report.
Alexis Colvin, MD, an orthopedic sports medicine surgeon, has opened a sports medicine practice in New York City, according to a Mount Sinai Hospital news release.
Full-thickness rotator cuff tears increase in about half of patients 60 years or younger, which means surgery should be initially considered to prevent a tear size increase, according to a study published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
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Seven hospitals around the country are investigating hip resurfacing as an alternative to hip replacement as part of an FDA trial study, according to a Sun Sentinel news report.
Kayal Orthopaedic Center in Franklin Lakes, N.J., will open its Franklin Lakes Medical Center in May, according to a practice news release.
Now that previously unknown details about accountable care organizations have been released in HHS' proposed regulations, many specialists can begin deciding whether they fit into this new delivery structure. Scott E. Glaser, MD, president of the Pain Specialists of Greater…
Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the National Institute on Drug Abuse shows there has been a drastic increase in opioid prescriptions, while prescriptions for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have decreased, according to a UPenn news release.
Hospital for Special Surgery radiologists have devised a method for imaging total knee replacements without distortion from the implant or damaging the total knee replacement, according to a column written by Helene Pavlov, MD, chief radiologist for HSS, and published…