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The University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor announced that its board of regents has approved the appointment of Carmen R. Green, MD, as the health system's inaugural associate vice president and associate dean for health equity and inclusion.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has launched a self-paced education module on the "transitions of care" from both a meaningful use and electronic health record technology certification perspective.

The American Joint Replacement Registry board of directors named three surgeons to leadership positions, according to an AAOS Now report.

Mark Romanowsky, MD, will be honored at the Sixth Annual Riley Reunion Night, according to a Lowell Sun report.

The Georgia House of Representatives has approved legislation regulating pain management clinics, according to an Independent Mail report.  

Within the latest $2.4 trillion deficit-reduction plan floated by president-appointed bipartisan budget watchdogs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles is $600 billion in spending cuts to healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, according to a report by the Wall Street…

Today, HHS issued a final rule on essential health benefits that must be covered when health insurance is expanded in 2014.

Director of the Joint Replacement Center at Seacoast Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Moby Parsons, MD, has been recognized as a 2012 Advanced Energy Surgeon of the Year by Medtronic Advanced Energy, according to a Seacoast Online report.

James Andrews, MD, performed knee surgery on South Carolina Gamecocks running back Marcus Lattimore, according to a Bleacher Report.

Michael Shin, MD, St. Margaret's Valley Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Spring Valley, Ill., has earned the subspecialty certificate in orthopedic sports medicine from the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, according to a News Tribune report.