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Southpoint Surgery Center in Jacksonville, Fla., has selected ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding, as well as the ProVation MultiCaregiver for its electronic health record and patient charting solution.

Flying in the face of earlier reports that Medicare price variation is caused by wasteful spending, a study published in the journal Medical Care Research and Review found patients' health was to blame for 75 to 85 percent of Medicare…

House Republicans unveiled a draft of a bill intended to replace Medicare's sustainable growth rate permanently and end the annual game of political hot potato in which lawmakers bargain to overwrite it and avoid cutting physician pay.

House Rep. Dan Carter and Rep. Prasad Srinivasan, MD, have received honorary membership awards from the Connecticut Orthopaedic Society at its annual meeting held in Farmington, Conn., on May 10, according to a Hartford Courant report.

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Healtheway and the New York eHealth Collaborative are working to ready the health information exchange certification program that will be tested by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, according to an EHR Intelligence report.

Stem cell research is slowly but surely gaining traction in the orthopedic community. Joseph Purita, MD, medical director of The Institute of Regenerative & Molecular Orthopedics in Boca Raton, Fla. and medical director of StemMD, began research in stem cell…

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