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Taking Risk: Early Results From Teaching Hospitals’ Participation in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative
The authors describe observations from the 27 teaching hospitals constituting the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) cohort in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative. CMMI introduced BPCI in August 2011 and selected the first set of participants in January 2013. BPCI participants enter into Medicare payment arrangements for episodes of care for which they take financial risk. The first round of participants entered risk agreements on October 1, 2013 and January 1, 2014. In April 2014, CMMI selected additional participants who started takin...
Source: Academic Medicine - June 30, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Corindus touts first-in-human coronary telerobotics study with CorPath system
Corindus Vascular Robotics (OTC:CVRS) today touted that its CorPath robotic surgical platform was used in a first-in-human telerobotic intervention study in India. The Waltham, Mass.-based company touted that the study was the world’s first percutaneous coronary intervention conducted from a remote location outside of a catheterization lab. In the trial, five patients at India’s Apex Heart Institute underwent an elective PCI procedure from a distance of approximately 20 miles away, Corindus said. The procedures were performed by Apex Heart Institute chair and chief interventional cardiologist Dr. Tejas Patel f...
Source: Mass Device - December 6, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Featured Robotics Corindus Vascular Robotics Source Type: news