Mountain States Health Alliance headquartered in Johnson City, Tenn., is one health system leading the charge and reaping the benefits of a more intelligent, decision support-enabled CVIS with a built-in quality control engine that ensures data entered into the report are consistent.

Healthcare today is focused on the Triple Aim: Improving patient quality of care and satisfaction, improving outcomes, while also reducing total cost of care.

Good outcomes in revascularizing high-risk, complex PCI patients start with careful patient selection. The secret to success in complete revascularization with Protected PCI involves some art, some science and begins with following proven protocols.

Balancing needs, utilization and cost while improving patient care are central to the mission of the interventional cardiology team at Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta.

Despite its name, Bakersfield Heart Hospital offers more service lines than just those under its cardiovascular umbrella.

The University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, already a major national referral center, has recently undergone a significant culture shift. The change began when Robb MacLellan, MD, joined as chief of cardiology of UW Medicine Regional Heart Center in 2011.

Good Samaritan Hospital in L.A. looks to its managers to preserve that margin by slashing supply costs without compromising clinical quality.

High-risk PCI patients have new options at Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia with the Impella 2.5, a miniature heart pump for use in elective and urgent high-risk PCI procedures.