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Feature Articles

  • June Deadline Nears to Qualify for Maximum Meaningful Use Payments

    Written By: Bob Dean | Posted in Practice Management Solutions | May 2012

    With all the excitement about the recent release of the proposed Stage 2 meaningful use requirements, it is easy for physicians to overlook the fast-approaching deadlines for the existing Medicare Stage 1 program. The key fact is that physicians (known as eligible providers or EPs) must complete t... Read on>>
  • The EHR Conundrum: To invest or not to invest? The Promise vs. Barriers to Implementation

    Written By: Kendall Tant | Posted in Practice Management Solutions | May 2012

    Increased physician productivity, patient satisfaction and expedient access to patient information. Isn’t that what the EHR system promised to deliver? And we have to ask - how’s that working for you? In the midst of the technological revolution, the medical field is still adapting. It seems... Read on>>
  • Product Recalls: How Do You Protect Yourself and Your Practice?

    Written By: Teresa Ford | Posted in The Top Line | May 2012

    It is crazy out there. The DePuy ASR recall is in full bloom, metal on metal generally is causing concern in the medical device community (with several manufacturers having metal on metal offerings), and the Sulzer Inter-Op® recall, though nearly a decade old, is still being discussed in the media... Read on>>
  • Creating Exponential Value, Part II: What is Your Idea Worth?

    Written By: John Kapitan | Posted in Surgeon as Entrepreneur | May 2012

    In the previous article of this series (Surgeon as Entrepreneur, December 2011), Stuart Lindquist touched on a point that is critical to physician inventors to consider: namely, how far to take your idea down the path of development on your own before trying to sell it off to a company. While it ma... Read on>>

Editor's Picks

The Top Line

Just Because Your Sales Rep Doesn’t Get It, Doesn’t Mean You Shouldn’t!

I promise each and every one of you that I am sick and tired of having to write about compliance issues in the orthopaedic industry. I started preachi ...

Orthopaedic Law Watch

Regulations, Case Decisions and More!!!

In the past couple of weeks, every Federal government agency that could issue regulations regarding Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) did exactly t ...

Giving Back

Report from the Field: Mobile Orthopaedic Services

History My name is Dr. Stan Kinsch. My field project idea actually stems from 2004, when I was still working at the Kikuyu Orthopedic Rehabilitation C ...

Future Technologies

A Pressure Transducer for Diagnosing Compartment Syndrome

Background An internet search for “compartment syndrome” will inevitably turn up a recent story about a soldier or young adult who sustains a leg ...

Practice Management Solutions

How to Get Your Patients and Staff to Embrace a Culture of Collections

To thrive in today’s challenging financial environment, practices must be more aggressive about collecting patient deductibles, coinsurance payments ...

Guest Editorial

Healthy Word of Mouth

Look. Times are a-changin’. Bundled payments, hospital buyouts, healthcare legislation, physician owned distributorships, the mounting political and ...

ORTHOINVESTOR Update

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AAP IMPLANTATE AAQ.DE 0.79 -0.009 -1.14%
Alphatec Holdings ATEC 1.65 -0.03 -1.82%
ArthroCare Corpor ARTC 24.80 -0.09 -0.36%
Bacterin Internat BONE 1.59 -0.04 -2.52%
BioMimetic Therap BMTI 2.31 +0.01 +0.43%
CONMED Corporatio CNMD 26.96 -0.28 -1.04%
CO.DON CNWK.DE 1.379 +0.02 +1.45%
CORIN GROUP CRG.L 46.48 -0.02 -0.04%
CURASAN CUR.DE 2.989 +0.079 +2.64%
Exactech EXAC 16.52 +0.02 +0.12%
China Kanghui Hol KH 19.75 -0.11 -0.56%
JAPAN MDM JMD.F 1.63 0.00 0.00%
MAKO Surgical Cor MAKO 22.17 -0.53 -2.39%
NuVasive NUVA 18.73 +0.06 +0.32%
Orthofix Internat OFIX 39.03 -0.06 -0.15%
RTI Biologics RTIX 3.56 0.00 0.00%
Symmetry Medical SMA 8.32 +0.05 +0.60%
Smith & Nephew SN SNN 45.68 -0.57 -1.25%
Stryker Corporati SYK 50.26 -0.72 -1.43%
SYNTHES-AI SYST.VX 156.40 -0.60 -0.38%
TIGENIX TIG.BR 0.47 -0.01 -2.13%
Tornier N.V. TRNX 20.68 -0.29 -1.40%
TranS1 Inc. TSON 2.94 -0.18 -6.12%
Wright Medical Gr WMGI 19.71 -0.24 -1.22%
Zimmer Holdings ZMH 58.86 -0.64 -1.09%
TRAUSON HLDGS 0325.HK 2.71 -0.05 -1.85%