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CAScination AG announced its surgical navigation system for open liver surgery, CAS-One LIVER, has been granted FDA 510(k) clearance, according to a press release.

Representing approximately 17.7% of the U.S. population, Hispanics and Latinos have significantly lower all-cause death rates compared with whites, despite a lack of health insurance and other socioeconomic barriers to care.

The effectiveness of screening programs should lead to an expansion of cancer screening, albeit with more organization, surveillance and collaboration between health care systems and their communities, according to a CDC Grand Rounds report published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

The top 12 updates in gastroenterology and hepatology featured the most important data from 2014 on topics such as esophageal diseases, pancreatic disease, colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, liver disease and more.

From international law firm Arnold & Porter LLP comes a timely column that provides views on current regulatory and legislative topics that weigh on the minds of today’s physicians and health care executives.

BOSTON — Today at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, experts from the American Board of Medical Specialties and the American Board of Internal Medicine, discussed the controversial process of Maintenance of Certification.

BOSTON — Mobile apps are becoming increasingly common in health care, with 20,000 available on iTunes and the Android Store related to medicine, according to Sameer Badlani, MD, FACP, chief health information officer at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City.

Many patients today may face higher out-of-pocket costs, including increased deductibles and self-pay portions, that can make moving forward with health care challenging. In managing the cost of care, patients appreciate and have even come to expect some level of assistance from their health care practices. In turn, some practices try to help by billing patients in-house. However, when a practice takes on the responsibility of extending credit to patients, it also incurs costs and risks, including potential late payments, bad debt and uncollected accounts.

Individual patient clinical data available in electronic health records may predict the risk for palliative chemotherapy-related hospitalization, according to study results.

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, signed into law on April 16, will make major changes in Medicare payments for physician services.