Integra Life Sciences will pay as much as $140 million to acquire Surgical Innovation Associates, a spinoff company of Evanston, Ill.-based Northwestern University.
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Atrium, Advocate Aurora complete merger
Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health closed on their formal combination Dec. 2, resulting in a newly combined $27 billion, 67-hospital system called Advocate Health — the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the U.S.
Structured patient handoffs cut adverse effects by nearly 50%, researchers find
The I-PASS Handoff Program, created to improve handoff miscommunications when providers change shifts, resulted in a 47 percent reduction in adverse events, a new study found.
UC Davis generates $12.5B+ in statewide economic activity, report finds
An economic impact analysis of how direct employment and spending by Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis affects the local, regional and statewide economies found that the university generated $12.56 billion in statewide economic activity and supported 6…
17 ophthalmology updates in the last 30 days
The following is all the ophthalmology news Becker’s has covered in the last month:
Biggest ASC deals in November
Here are the biggest ASC deals in November:
'I'm not sure if the healthcare landscape has ever seen a storm like this one,' surgeon says
Spine surgeon Philip Louie, MD, medical director of research and academics at Seattle-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, joined Becker’s to discuss what he wishes his coworkers knew about his job.
The group missing from the labor market
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and evolving economic circumstances, middle-aged men have had a slower return to the workforce than other groups, The New York Times reported Dec. 2.
GE Healthcare creating augmented reality X-ray imaging system
GE Healthcare has partnered with MediView XR to create technology that provides a heads-up, augmented reality display of interventional X-ray imaging systems.
IT network crash causes New York hospital network to divert patients
A November IT incident caused three of New York City-based One Brooklyn Health’s hospitals to shut down IT and EHR systems, yet little information has been released about the cause of the disruption, BankInfoSecurity reported Nov. 30.
