The Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children's National Medical Center in Washington announced that it has opened a new Pain Medicine Care Complex.
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Charles Blitzer, MD, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with fracture and trauma expertise, has been appointed to serve on the New Hampshire Medical Society board of trustees, according to a Fosters report.
Methodist Willowbrook Hospital in Houston has recently launched its Center for Sports Medicine and Human Performance Lab, according to an Ultimate Spring report.
At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, in Chicago, Thomas Dixon and Kara Fleming will give a presentation titled "ACO Network Models – Trends and Considerations."
President Barack Obama's $3.77 trillion budget plan for the 2014 fiscal year, if approved, would raise overall federal spending about 6 percent above the current sequester rates, but it would cut Medicare's budget by an estimated $370 billion through reduced…
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Keith Meister, MD, performed shoulder surgery on Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Jeff Niemann at Trinity Park Surgery Center in Arlington, Texas, according to an MLB report.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has partnered with Touch of Life Technologies to develop a virtual reality-based shoulder simulator to train and evaluate orthopedic residents in shoulder arthroscopy surgery, according to a Market Watch report.
Martin Schiavenato, PhD, RN, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar, has invented a machine to assess pain in premature infants and potentially protect them from its negative developmental effects, according to a press release from the foundation.
CMS and OIG have published proposed rules in the Federal Register that seek to extend the existing Stark Law Exception and Anti-Kickback Statue Safe Harbor and make them applicable to the donation of electronic health records through 2016.