Innovation

Hospitals are increasingly adding sports medicine clinics to their facilities for extra financial support, according to a Medcity Cleveland report.

Healthmark Industries has announced the launch of its new Adjustable Stringer to be used in the preparation of instruments for sterilization.

The Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery at St. David's North Austin Medical Center in Austin announced a partnership with three Texas hospitals for da Vinci surgical services.

Prakash Patel, MD, CEO, and Steven Arnold, MD, chief medical officer, of Access MediQuip, a provider of comprehensive surgical implant management solutions, address five questions pertaining to the topic of surgical implant procedures in hospitals.

Cleveland Clinic and North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, based in Great Neck, N.Y., announced an agreement to collaborate on innovative ideas as part of an "Innovation Alliance."

Here are 10 studies that evaluated the effectiveness of various surgical training techniques.

Somnia Anesthesia recently published a white paper focusing on integrating CRNAs in a hospitals care team model. Robert Farrar, MD, vice president of medical affairs for Somnia Anesthesia, addresses five questions pertaining to the topic of CRNAs in the anesthesia…

A team of researchers has developed a new assessment to predict whether surgeons are ready to use the da Vinci robot for surgery, according to a Market Watch report.

Ron Hammerle and Jay H. Sanders, MD, of Health Resources, Ltd., cited "seven noteworthy developments for healthcare innovation in 2011" in the company’s monthly One Minute Report.

Proficiency-based training may be more effective for acquiring psychomotor skills than more traditional approaches, such as time- and repetition-based training, according to research published in the American Journal of Surgery.