In his new book, The Opiate Cure, Robert T. Cochran Jr., MD, writes that psychiatric illnesses falling in the bipolar spectrum can be managed and even cured by opiates, according to a news release.
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Health information exchange is becoming increasingly more important as a higher percentage of hospitals attests to meaningful use of electronic health records and begins to prepare for meaningful use stage 2. By connecting healthcare providers across a range of locations,…
Physician employment has grown by 32 percent over the past 10 years. Hospitals today are employing roughly 212,000 physicians — or 20 percent of the practicing physician workforce — according to the AHA Hospital Statistics 2012 Edition.
A study recently published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine identified factors that can increase the risk of revision surgery following autologous chrondrocyte implantation.
Gregory Seelhoefer, MD, recently joined Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine at Willowbrook (Texas), according to a practice news release.
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CMS has indicated to the ASC Association that recent payments to surgery centers may not have reflected Congress' Dec. 23 vote to delay a potential reduction in physician payments due to the flawed SGR formula, according to an ASCA release.
The market for mobile health applications reached $718 million in 2011 just in the U.S., according to the Mobile Health Market Report by research2guidance.
The Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society has updated and improved its mentoring program, among other changes, according to a report in AAOS Now.
Here are 25 sports medicine physicians who were honored in 2011.