Unsedated transnasal endoscopy may be a feasible, safe and well-tolerated method to screen for esophageal disease in a primary care population, according to an American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy release.
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Market forces in healthcare, such as managed care programs and hospital competition increase the likelihood patients will undergo laparoscopic surgery to treat colon cancer, according to researchers from George Washington University and Case Western University.
Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services and the University of Minnesota are collaborating on a $182 million surgery center project, according to a Star Tribune report.
ThedaCare will begin construction on ThedaCare Medical Center in Shawano, Wis., next year, with completion expected in 2014, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
The California Health Information Partnership and Services Organization has announced significant progress in its first two years, including over 7,700 providers in various stages of EHR implementation and over $65 million in federal funding.
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CMS has posted the names, business phone numbers and business addresses of Medicare eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals that have successfully demonstrated meaningful use and received payments as of March 2012.
Surgeons who performed more total knee replacements tended to have shorter lengths of stay, shorter operating times and fewer complications compared with surgeons who performed fewer knee replacements, according to a study in Health Affairs.
The House Budget Committee approved a budget reconciliation package to maintain the 2 percent across-the-board Medicare cuts — already a part of the Budget Control scheduled to start January 2013 — but replace sequestered cuts to defense spending with targeted…
The board of directors for the American Pain Foundation voted to dissolve the organization on May 3, 2012, after working for several months to address a lack of financial resources and funds.
Arizona Pain Specialists in Phoenix now offer facet joint injection treatments.