Industry Insights

A new study in the April 2021 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety assessed which complications are associated with the highest mortality rates and resource utilization for older patients who undergo hip fracture repair.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has signed into law new legislation that will require licensed hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers to adopt and implement policies to prevent human exposure to surgical smoke. Surgical smoke results from thermal destruction of human...

Fusion Robotics LLC, a spinal robotics and navigation company, announced the successful completion of the first spine procedure using the company’s technology platform.

OSI Systems Inc. has announced that its health care division, Spacelabs Healthcare, received orders valued at approximately $6 million from a U.S. hospital to provide patient monitoring solutions and related accessories.

In addition to the physical Experience Centers where visitors can interact with Getinge’s products and solutions – a virtual hospital is now launching to simulate a state-of-the-art hospital environment online. First out is Getinge’s solutions for the intensive care unit.

An RCSI study conducted in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin has found that surgery, rather than antibiotics-only, should remain as the mainstay of treatment for acute uncomplicated appendicitis.