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Computer Navigation is Orthopedist’s Latest Tool
To see the difference perfect alignment can make in parts’ wear-and-tear, look no further than your car’s four wheels — or to the knees that Dr. Walter Shelton rebuilds.
With the introduction of computer navigation in his practice of total knee replacement at River Oaks Hospital in Flowood, the orthopedic surgeon has added three-dimensional joint mapping and visualization to his tools in the operating room.
LUCY SCHULTZE |
Grand Rounds October
Estes Joins Samarion as Director of Client Servies
Samarion, a Ridgeland, Miss.-based healthcare technology company providing the nursing home industry with the unprecedented Enterprise Quality Improvement System, hired Tonya R. Estes as director of client services.
A graduate of McNeese State University licensed as a nursing facility administrator in 1992, she has served as marketing director and rehab administrator of St. Francis Nursing Home in Oberlin, La.; a healthcare consultant specializing in Medicare regulatory and compliance matters for The Broussard Group in Lake Charles, La.; and administrator and owner of The Gardens Assisted Living and The Guardian House in Lake Charles, La.
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Intellegent Investing: Mortgages and Substandard Regulators
Buying a house is the biggest purchase most will ever make. Normally, people do not have enough cash to pay for the purchase, so they get a mortgage loan to complete the purchase. After the sale, the buyer has legal title to the property. However, if the buyer defaults on paying the loan off, the lender can sell the property to recover the amount owed.
ROGER MUNS |
IQH Has Medicare Part D Project
Information & Quality Healthcare (IQH), as the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Medicare beneficiaries in Mississippi, is conducting a quality project in connection with the Medicare Part D prescription medications paid for by Medicare Part D that began in January 2006. One of the responsibilities of IQH is to analyze data and identify patterns in prescribing practices that fall outside current professional guideline recommendations.
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Physician Spotlight: Dr. Kenneth Fox
When Dr. Kenneth Fox began telling his Manhattan colleagues about his decision to relocate his practice, he was met with raised eyebrows and gaping mouths.
“Virtually everybody I told I was moving to Mississippi had shocked or surprised looks on their faces,” said Fox, a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist who joined Methodist Spine & Joint Center in Flowood this past spring.
LUCY SCHULTZE |
Spectacles Offer Light to Improve Gait
The combining of a central field cueing device with spectacles is offering patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) a light for their path — literally — and enabling improved freedom.
The new device, referred to as Visual Cueing Spectacles (VCS), has been incorporated into spectacle prototypes by Enhanced Vision Systems under a licensing agreement from HMD Therapeutics for patients suffering from akinesia.
GLORIA BUTLER BALDWIN |
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