NCDR report finds hospitals are seeing improvements but are still struggling to reach pre-COVID treatment thresholds years after pandemic precautions upended longstanding processes.

Agreement aims to use AI to help make cardiology clinical trials more efficient and lead to faster advances in patient care. 

Gregg Stone, MD, discussing the value of IVUS and OCT over angiography to guide PCI procedures and actually improve outcomes based on a 12,000 patient meta analysis presented at ESC 2023.

This encouraged the study’s authors, who had feared any history of smoking on a regular basis would do permanent, irreversible damage to a patient's cardiovascular health. 

Implementing cardiac CT can make a big impact across the service line without reducing the use of other modalities. Ginger Biesbrock, MedAxiom's executive vice president, explained these findings in a new video interview.

The group's roster of 17 like-minded cardiology practices now has access to MedAxiom's practice management tools and other key resources. 

Such reports helped improve preparedness for appointments, enhance conversations with physicians and bolster patients' understanding of treatment recommendations, survey responses show.

President Joe Biden first announced his intent to nominate “world renowned” surgical oncologist Monica Bertagnolli, MD, on May 15. 

Under terms of the deal, Cleveland-based University Hospitals will add “hundreds” of new radiology systems across its enterprise. 

KLAS conducts annual assessments of all types of healthcare information systems such as PACS, EMRs and cardiovascular information systems and ranks them. Bradley Hunter, the vice president for value-based care and core solutions at KLAS Research, explains the process of ranking.
 

The AI Security Center, AISC for short, has as its inaugural leader U.S. Army General Paul Nakasone.