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Leading nationally recognized experts including orthopedic surgeons and residents, athletic trainers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, advanced practice nurses, physician’s assistants, and physicians with a particular interest in shoulder and elbow disorders.

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OBERD is excited to be back in person at The American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting – **Booth 3923** on September 1-3. Stop by the booth to learn how to answer these main questions to optimize your patient outcomes and elevate your practice: **“How good are you?”,** **“Are your patients improving?”** and **“How do you know?”**

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OBERD is excited to be attending the first ever combined meeting with The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) and The Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA), July 8-10 in booth #712.

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AO Spine members now have the distinct and unique opportunity to participate in AO Global Data. AO Spine Knowledge Forums endorsed protocols across the areas of deformity, degenerative disease, trauma, and tumor. These provide both highly specialized and more general access to comply with data collection standards, and precisely track an array of pertinent spine conditions.

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CMS, recently, released proposed changes to the Quality Payment Program (QPP), outlining MIPS changes in 2021 and beyond.

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OBERD, the leading global practice intelligence software company for optimizing patient outcomes and practice performance, today announced that its cofounder, Otho R. Plummer, Ph.D., together with Joseph T. O’Neil, M.D. and Steven M. Raikin, M.D. received the 2020 Roger A. Mann Award for their paper titled, “Application of Computerized Adaptive Testing to the Foot and Ankle Ability Measure.”

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OBERD is attending the Orthopaedic Trauma Association’s (OTA) Annual Meeting, virtually October 21-24, to showcase the use of outcome measurements, analyze the pros and cons of data collection, and discuss the successful launch of AO Global Data (AOGD).

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OBERD is attending the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) Annual Meeting, virtually October 2-3, joining leading nationally and internationally recognized experts including orthopaedic surgeons and residents, athletic trainers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, advanced practice nurses, physician’s assistants, and physicians with a particular interest in upper-extremity orthopaedic research.

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This new collaboration created by the AO and global patient outcomes collection leader OBERD is truly a one-of-a-kind platform, and AO members can receive discounts of up to 50 percent with subsidies for the first 1,000 to apply.

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Now more than ever, patients don’t want to spend time filling out lengthy, cumbersome questionnaires. New work from the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute in Philadelphia and Universal Research Solutions [OBERD] in Columbia, Missouri, addresses this issue in their new study, “Use of Computerized Adaptive Testing to Develop More Concise Patient-Reported Outcome Measures” appears in the March 12, 2020 edition of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

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