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Sham Vengurlekar, MD, an interventional pain specialist, announced that he is relocating his practice, Premier Pain Institute, from Phoenix to a new facility in Scottsdale, Ariz.

The Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology announced that it has awarded cooperative agreements to two health information exchange governance organizations — DirectTrust and EHR|HIE Interoperability Workgroup, led by the New York eHealth Collaborative.

A bill introduced to the House of Representatives would offer an electronic health record penalty exemption to near retirement-age physicians who fail to adopt systems, according Medscape.

On Thursday, John Wilckens, MD, performed successful knee surgery on the Baltimore Orioles' third baseman Wilson Betemit, according to a Rant Sports report.

At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, in Chicago, industry experts will give a presentation titled "Moving Spine Procedures to ASCs – Key Business and Clinical Issues."

A new study published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery found that the number of authors on an original research article has increased significantly over the past 60 years.

Dale Klein, MD, has joined Performance Plus in St. Joseph, Mo., according to a St. Joe Channel report.

Wilford K. Gibson, MD, was named chair of the board of councilors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons at the AAOS Annual Meeting in Chicago, according to an AAOS News Now report.

Health organizations are using technology to implement programs that help improve quality of patient care, according to an infographic based on a survey called "Healthcare Insights 2012," by Emdeon, a provider of revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information…

At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference, in Chicago, industry experts will give a presentation titled "An ASC Roundtable: Outlook for Investment and M&A Activity in the ASC Sector."