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FFB Driving the Research to Fight Blindness

Aug 13, 2014 at 04:03 pm by admin

When Alessandro Iannaccone, MD, was recruited in 2005 by Barrett Haik, MD, to come to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Hamilton Eye Institute in Memphis, h.... Read More

Campbell Clinic Surgeons Offer New Option in Fight against Pediatric Scoliosis

Aug 13, 2014 at 04:03 pm by admin

MAGEC Rod Helps Limit Number of Surgeries While It Grows with the Patient Over the past several generations, pediatric scoliosis has greatly hampered the quality of life for.... Read More

MEDICAL ECONOMICS: When Donkeys Fly

Aug 13, 2014 at 04:03 pm by admin

Recently a six-year-old donkey named Nestle visited Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital. And no, this was not some political event. Nestle is part of the Mid-South Ther.... Read More

Hey Doc, Best Practices

Aug 13, 2014 at 04:03 pm by admin

You attended years of school and training. But by now you know that there’s more to being a doctor than what you learned in the classroom. Sure, a suture can heal and the rig.... Read More

Qsource to Spearhead Significant Changes In CMS’ Restructuring Of QIO Programs

Aug 13, 2014 at 04:03 pm by admin

The widespread reform of the nation’s healthcare has trickled down to create significant changes for area healthcare providers; changes that begin this month. The changes ar.... Read More

Partnering in a New Paradigm

Aug 13, 2014 at 04:03 pm by admin

There’s no question healthcare delivery is in the middle of a transformational period highlighted by unprecedented consolidation. While there are a number of factors impactin.... Read More

July 2014

Jul 15, 2014 at 09:47 am by admin

Baptist Memorial Announces Leadership Changes Baptist Memorial Health Care announced leadership changes that mark several firsts for the organization: for the first time, a.... Read More

PHYSICAN SPOTLIGHT: Kathryn Schwarzenberger, MD

Jul 15, 2014 at 09:43 am by admin

Dermatologist Oversees Sweeping Changes at UTHSC Just over a year ago, Kathryn Schwarzenberger, MD, left her job as professor of medicine in the Division of Dermatology at t.... Read More

Exchange Rate

Jul 15, 2014 at 09:43 am by admin

An early analysis of the federal health exchange After a very rough start, the federal health exchange managed a healthy rebound before the March 31 general signup deadline..... Read More

Hospital Acquisitions of Practices Apparently Slowing in Memphis

Jul 15, 2014 at 09:43 am by admin

Merged Gastro One remaining independent Healthcare systems across the United States have been express-purchasing physician practices in great quantity during the last two or.... Read More

HEALTHCARE LEADER: Jeremy Clark, CEO, St. Francis Hospital-Bartlett

Jul 15, 2014 at 09:43 am by admin

Polishing a jewel in Tenet’s crown There’s always been something special about St. Francis Hospital-Bartlett, according to Jeremy Clark, its CEO. Clark says it’s more than.... Read More

Komen Memphis – Saving Lives in the Mid-South Since 1992

Jul 15, 2014 at 09:43 am by admin

It happened to her the same way it happens to many women. The Baptist mobile mammography vehicle was in the parking lot of her employer, Medtronic, and it was time for her ch.... Read More

Baptist Awaits New Pediatric Wing

Jul 15, 2014 at 09:43 am by admin

System's first pediatric surgeon already on board The emergence of a steel frame on the east side of Baptist Memphis, adjacent to Baptist Hospital for Women, marks that heal.... Read More

Your Practice – Your Brand: Marketing Where Customers Are

Jul 15, 2014 at 09:43 am by admin

If you are reading this column, you probably fit one of these descriptions: physician, advance practice registered nurse, physician assistant, hospital administrator, practic.... Read More

T Cell Based Therapy Reveals Promise

Jul 15, 2014 at 09:43 am by admin

In 1890 the German physician Paul Erlich began immunologic research in Berlin ( later in Frankfurt ), at the Institute of Experimental Therapy. He did so at the entreaty of D.... Read More