News and Notes

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The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) announces the release of a fully updated Ambulatory Surgery and Preoperative Evaluation and Testing Toolkit.

Exactech, a developer and producer of innovative implants, instrumentation and the Active Intelligence platform of technologies for joint replacement surgery, has announced the launch of Predict+, a data-driven, clinical decision support tool that uses machine learning to predict individual patient outcomes after shoulder replacement surgery to assist surgeon decision making.

ValueHealth, LLC, a nationally recognized tech-enabled surgical platform company, and central Pennsylvania-based Penn State Health have announced a new joint venture to develop a high-performance surgical network. The strategic partnership strives to bring the highest quality outpatient surgical capabilities to the region while significantly lowering costs for patients and employers.

If there is anything 2020 has shown us, it’s that even the tiniest of life forms can overburden our already fragile health care systems.

Joint roadmap addresses the dual need to meet health care demands for patients hospitalized with COVID-19, along with patients who need essential surgical services; calls for centralized coordinated governmental action to deploy necessary supplies