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Oncology Med To Service Boston Surgery Center
PITTSBURGH — Oncology Med, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based cancer treatment solutions group, announced today that during the month of July, it will begin providing prostate cancer brachytherapy treatment services under a new multiple year exclusive contract with Eastern Massachusetts Ambulatory Surgery Center; a physician-owned surgery center being managed by Ambulatory Surgery Centers of America with affiliate facilities located throughout the United ...(More)
7/11/2008
Amkai Launches Freedom II Upgrade Plan
WATERBURY, Conn. — Amkai announced today the successful completion on July 4 of its Freedom Upgrade promotional campaign and the simultaneous launch of the “Freedom II” program. Like its predecessor, Freedom II minimizes upfront capital investment for surgery centers seeking to replace legacy administrative systems with AmkaiOffice™. Created by the team which developed the popular AdvantX™ software, AmkaiOffice provides comprehensive ...(More)
7/10/2008
Physician-Owned Hospitals Linked to Shifts in Care
After physicians become part-owners of specialty hospitals, referrals for surgery and other hospital tests and treatments increase significantly, suggests a study in the July issue of Medical Care. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied ...(More)
7/10/2008
Cadaver Tissue Fails Nearly 25 Percent of the Time in Young ACL Reconstructions
ORLANDO, Fla. — With an estimated 80,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears happening each year in the United States, including recently to golfer Tiger Woods, choosing the best replacement ligament for surgery is one key to success. A study released today at the 2008 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting at the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes, found ...(More)
7/10/2008
TRUMPF Introduces In-Light HD Operating Room Camera
Charleston, S.C. — TRUMPF Medical Systems, Inc. has introduced the world's first in-light high definition (HD) operating room camera. The TruVidia HD captures and transmits razor sharp, true-to-life images with 1080 lines horizontal resolution and 2 million pixels. The images are more than twice as clear as those available from standard definition (SD) cameras. Images, captured in wide-screen format, can ...(More)
7/10/2008
CIT Facilitates Sale of New York City’s Victory Memorial Hospital
CIT Facilitates Sale of New York City’s Victory Memorial HospitalHistoric Hospital’s Nursing Home Will Remain Open and Medical Services Will Continue Under New OwnershipNEW YORK — CIT Group, Inc. (NYSE: CIT), a leading global commercial finance company, announced that it served as the Exclusive Real Estate Advisor to both Victory Memorial Hospital and its Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in ...(More)
7/9/2008
Stop Bad Behavior by Healthcare Professionals, Says Joint Commission
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. -- Healthcare is a high-stakes, pressure-packed environment that can test the limits of civility in the workplace. A new alert issued by The Joint Commission warns that rude language and hostile behavior among healthcare professionals goes beyond being unpleasant and poses a serious threat to patient safety and the overall quality of care.Intimidating and disruptive behaviors are ...(More)
7/9/2008
PMG Partners Selects SourceMedical’s Vision Enterprise
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — SourceMedical Solutions, a leading provider of outpatient information management solutions, announced that the company has been selected as the enterprise management software provider for PMG Partners, the leading provider of ambulatory surgery center (ASC) billing and collection services located in Los Angeles.“SourceMedical’s Vision Enterprise is designed to manage multiple sites across the enterprise to streamline and automate ...(More)
7/8/2008
NovaMed Acquires Ambulatory Surgery Center in Louisiana
CHICAGO — NovaMed, Inc. announced that it has acquired a 51 percent interest in the Interventional Pain Management Center, an ambulatory surgery center with four operating rooms located in Baton Rouge, La. This center currently performs pain management procedures exclusively but has the potential to add other specialties. “In the last 12 months approximately 15,000 pain management procedures were performed ...(More)
7/8/2008
Self-powered Implants for Injured Knees
As news of Tiger Woods' knee injury hits the headlines, a researcher at the University of Southampton has developed a new self-powered sensor to monitor progress during knee operations. As part of his final year project in his Masters degree in Electromechanical Engineering, which he studied at the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), Fauzan Baharudin explored the potential ...(More)
7/7/2008
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