Heather Porter, Author at Spectrum Healthcare Partners

Low-Dose Radiation Treatment Offers Hope for Osteoarthritis Patients

Posted on March 10, 2025

Osteoarthritis affects more than 32.5 million Americans, making it the most common form of arthritis in the United States. For approximately one in seven adults, this degenerative joint condition can mean living with persistent pain and stiffness that significantly impacts daily life. This chronic condition affects joints throughout the body, including: Upper body: shoulders, elbows, […]

Spectrum Rolling Out Digital Pathology Services

Posted on December 23, 2024 (January 6, 2025)

Interview with Bilal Ahmad, MD, Chair of Spectrum’s Digital Pathology Innovation and Compliance Committee, featured in the December 2024 issue of Laboratory Economics. Where does Spectrum stand in its rollout of digital pathology for clinical diagnostics? Our first whole slide imaging hospital client, Central Maine Medical Center (Lewiston, ME), installed its first high throughput scanner […]

Expanding Our Global Healthcare Footprint

Posted on December 3, 2024 (December 10, 2024)

A trip to Uganda sheds light on Spectrum’s worldwide mission to provide equitable care. With a shared commitment to improve the health of all populations in our global community, pathologist Emily Meserve, MD, MPH, and anesthesiologist Jonathan Meserve, MD, packed up their kids and headed to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. As managing director of Spectrum […]

Exceptional Anesthesia Care — No Matter Where You Are

Posted on November 19, 2024

Our anesthesiologists have a passion for caring for patients in a variety of care settings. Spectrum Healthcare Partners employs skilled anesthesiologists in settings of all sizes, including outpatient surgical centers, community-based hospitals, and Level I Trauma Centers. “As a patient, it is very important to trust the provider who is essentially responsible for your life,” […]

Spectrum Healthcare Partners Leverages Pramana’s AI-Enabled Scanners to Bring Digital Pathology to Central Maine Healthcare

Posted on October 24, 2024

Central Maine Healthcare (CMH) has upgraded its pathology capabilities through its collaboration with Spectrum Healthcare Partners (SHCP), an independent, multispecialty, physician-owned healthcare practice. Together, they will advance pathology services using Pramana’s autonomous, AI-enabled scanners, improving operational efficiency and providing pathologists with a more comprehensive view to enhance diagnostic confidence. “Digital pathology is transforming how we […]

Spectrum Pathology: Collaboration That Improves Patient Care

Posted on October 18, 2024 (October 18, 2024)

When a patient goes to the doctor, answers are often the goal. When pathology results are needed to provide those answers, the waiting period can be stressful. “Our pathology division understands that the patient experience doesn’t start when the specimen reaches the lab. We understand that it starts when the patient has their biopsy,” says […]

Celebrating Women in Medicine Month: A Conversation with Two Spectrum Radiation Oncologists

Posted on September 24, 2024

At Spectrum Health Care Partners, we celebrate the many gains made by women in medicine and strive to foster an atmosphere where all physicians feel supported in their work. Consider this recent shift in demographics: As of the 2023-2024 school year, the Association of American Medical Colleges noted that more than 55-percent of medical students […]

Upgrading and Customizing Technology to Support Radiology Care

Posted on June 11, 2024 (June 12, 2024)

Digital platforms used for the transfer, viewing, storage, and processing of medical images have become essential to medical communities nationwide. Known as picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), they’ve been around long enough that medical practices may be in the position of needing to upgrade or replace them. Such was the case at Spectrum’s Northern […]

Spectrum Anesthesiologist Investigates the Connection Between Colonoscopy Sedation Type and Polyp Detection

Posted on May 20, 2024 (June 12, 2024)

Did you know that colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death both in the United States and worldwide? That makes colonoscopies a crucial screening tool for detecting polyps that can become colorectal cancer, so that the polyps can be removed before they can potentially become cancerous. Spectrum anesthesiologist Aurora Quaye, MD, who […]

Spectrum’s Ambulatory Surgery Center Earns Top Recognition from U.S. News and World Report

Posted on May 17, 2024 (June 12, 2024)

Spectrum’s Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) was named Best Orthopedics and Spine ASC by U.S. News and World Report and is the only ASC in Maine to receive this recognition. Earlier this week, U.S. News and World Report released their first ratings of ambulatory surgery centers. These ratings assess outpatient surgical centers solely on objective, risk-adjusted […]

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