Minneapolis-based Twin Cities Orthopedics and Ridgeview, a four-hospital system, are developing an orthopedic institute on the health system's Chaska, Minn., campus.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been used in orthopedic surgery for almost a decade to remotely track tagged devices and instruments via cloud-based software that can monitor location, models and configurations, expiration dates and other variables, with potentially significant advantages to patients and institutional operations.
Bob Vitoux has been appointed CEO of OrthoWorx, a Warsaw, Ind.-based nonprofit that aims to boost the orthopedics business in the region, Inside Indiana Business reported June 21.
Alaska orthopedic surgeon Al Gross, MD, has left the state's U.S. House race spinning after the third-place candidate withdrew from the special and general elections.
A quarter of orthopedic specialists have a net worth of at least $5 million, while 14 percent have a net worth under $500,000, according to Medscape's 2022 "Physician Wealth & Debt Report."
Despite early success in Medicare's Bundled Payments for Care Improvement-Advanced program for total hip and knee replacement, Rothman Orthopaedic Institute withdrew from the initiative because of concerns around target price methodology and financial penalties.
Cato Laurencin, MD, PhD, earned the American Orthopaedic Association's Distinguished Contributions to Orthopaedics award and entered the society's Hall of Fame on June 15.
Jonathon Forbes, MD, recently returned from a trip to Ukraine, where he was treating those wounded during Russian attacks, Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati reported June 15.
Mission (Texas) Regional Medical Center began using biometric patient-specific hip implants for joint replacements, the Rio Grande Guardian reported June 16.