Innovation

Becker's Hospital Review and Becker's ASC Review will host a free webinar on Tuesday, April 26, from 1:15 PM-2:15 PM CT, focusing on the impact of high-quality anesthesia management on productivity, patient satisfaction and facility revenue. The webinar is directed…

Researchers suggest that a novel, single-port, triangulating surgical platform could improve surgeons’ bimanual coordination in the OR and decrease mental workload during single-incision laparoscopies, according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

The University of California, San Francisco has officially opened its $123 million stem cell center, according to a UCSF news release. The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF was paid for with…

A former commercial pilot and obstetrician/gynecologist from Las Vegas have teamed together to apply lessons from aviation safety to healthcare setting, including hospital operating rooms, according to a Las Vegas Sun news report.

Even though National Institutes of Health spending levels are currently high, the federal government should press ahead with more spending on medical innovation, according to a release by the Council for American Medical Innovation.

Scientists from University of California, San Francisco will collaborate with Bayer HealthCare under a new master agreement, according to a San Francisco Business Times report. Few details of the partnership were released and no financial terms were disclosed. The number…

The Cleveland Clinic will help doctors at MedStar Health, a nine-hospital system in the Washington, D.C., area, turn their ideas into marketable inventions, according to a report by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Anesthesia, like many other specialties, is likely to undergo significant changes as the effects of health reform become clearer. Industry experts discuss five ways anesthesia provision will change over the next several years.

A less-invasive method to determine the state of non-small-cell lung cancer may spare patients the need for general anesthesia and surgery, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Surgeries in physicians' office, which make up 15 percent of all outpatient surgeries and are growing rapidly, can lower costs and provide surgeons with extra income, but states are only beginning to monitor this setting, according to a report by…