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Memphis could be one of 12 test markets nationwide for an experiment in using electronic record-keeping to improve health care quality, federal officials said Thursday. The new federal program could provide grants to 100 Memphis doctors' groups. In exchange, the groups would use electronic systems to gather and publish information about the...

The Regional Medical Center at Memphis needs $350 million for immediate improvements and officials with the county-owned hospital expect whatever business they affiliate with would help them come up with it. The hospital has been fighting a day-to-day battle just to keep its doors open. The most current numbers show the hospital lost $1.8...

The point man for building the Memphis biotechnology industry is now taking the top position of the academic program that feeds that industry with fresh engineers and new ideas. Steve Bares, president of Memphis Bioworks Foundation, has been named interim director of the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging, a joint program between th...

Memphis Bioworks Foundation works with the University of Tennessee Research Foundation to ensure the growth, protection and commercialization of their intellectual property. Bioworks operates to identify, shepherd and guard the technology developed in UTRF's Knoxville labs. UTRF is responsible for making discoveries in medicine and techn...

Dr. Glenn Phillip Schoettle, Jr., thoracic surgeon at Methodist University Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, co-authored an article that was published in the journal Innovations: Technology & Techniques in Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, the official journal of the International Society...

Steve J. Schwab, MD, executive dean and Memphis campus dean for the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has named Dr. Steven J. Bares interim director for the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging (BME&I). The recently elevated School of BME&I was previously a department in the College of Medicine (...

Dr. George G. Mayzell has joined Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital as chief medical officer. Dr. Mayzell recently moved to Memphis from Jacksonville, Fla., where he served as senior medical director of patient management effectiveness for Shands HealthCare, a 9-hospital system integrated with the University of Florida College of Medic...

Recently, UT President John Petersen announced plans to immediately remove the interim title designation for both Dr. Hershel ﾓPatﾔ Wall and Dr. Ken Brown. Since mid-April 2007, Dr. Wall has served as interim chancellor and vice president for Health Affairs, while Dr. Brown has served as chief of staff and interim executive vice chancellor f...

The 2007-2008 listing of Best Doctors in Americaﾮ names 89 physicians affiliated with UT Medical Group, Inc. as best in their fields. UT Medical Group is the Memphis areaﾒs largest physician practice with over 340 providers, all of whom are qualified to teach on the faculty of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medi...

Methodist South Hospital is making it easier than ever to get a screening mammogram. This past summer the hospital began offering no appointment necessary mammograms. Since then, physicians have sent more than 250 patients to Methodist South to take advantage of the convenience of having this important diagnostic procedure performed without...