Periop Pulse Maryland has become the 21st U.S. state to require the use of surgical smoke evacuation systems in its ORs. On May 26, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed House Bill 1087 into law. It goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2028. The law requires all healthcare facilities in Maryland that perform surgical procedures…
A new study from researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery’s Lerner Children’s Pavilion describes a mentorship model for robotic-assisted navigation in pediatric spinal fusion surgery. Noting that robotic-assisted navigation systems improve pedicle screw placement accuracy while acknowledging a significant learning curve, the team implemented a structured mentorship model that paired…
Axios reports that the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul wage levels for visa holders is impacting hospitals that rely heavily on foreign-born staff. It reports that the U.S. Department of Labor is focused on changing how it calculates “fair minimum pay” for workers on visas such as H-1Bs and green card sponsorship jobs. Axios…
Researchers from University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and UI Health are “challenging accepted beliefs about telesurgery” as a result of a $9 million project with the U.S. Office of Naval Research. According to UIC, “the researchers believe telesurgery — a surgeon operating on a patient in a different physical location…
The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has posted about the work of Archan Khandekar, MD, assistant professor of urologic oncology at its Desai Sethi Urology Institute (DSUI), who has led the implementation of a HIPAA-compliant artificial intelligence (AI) agent that is now live in University of Miami Health…
A new editorial on Cureus examines the future of surgical education, particularly in terms of operative video review and its potential to “fundamentally redefine” it. The authors write that the apprenticeship model of “see one, do one, teach one" in surgical education is “increasingly challenged by modern realities: work-hour restrictions, growing…
Providence, which runs 51 hospitals, 1,014 clinics and a range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington, announced that its Providence Health Plan “will transition out of most of its health insurance lines of business beginning in 2027,” including individual and family…
What does your chief operating officer (COO) think of the state of perioperative services at your organization? How should they think about it? A new white paper provides some rich insight for COOs on how to drive perioperative operational improvements that will also bolster financial performance. For perioperative leaders, it…
Surgeon recruitment and retention is already difficult for many facilities. According to a new study published as an article in press in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, that difficulty will likely continue without effective interventions to stem the tide of surgeon attrition. The retrospective longitudinal cohort study…
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has announced that the new clinical outcomes report from its National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) now provides hospitals risk-adjusted, benchmarked data for emergency general surgery for the first time, in the interest of advancing “data-driven quality improvement in one of the most complex…
