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Cleveland Clinic retained its spot as the top hospital in the country for cardiology and heart surgery. Did your facility make the list?

The new analysis, published in JACC: Heart Failure, focused on patient data from the renowned COAPT trial. 

Researchers stressed that clinicians have an opportunity to improve their machine learning models by providing data on specific social and environmental factors. 

Physicians and patients may want to consider selecting ARBs instead of ACE inhibitors as an initial treatment for hypertension, based on a new analysis in Hypertension.

Declining elective PCI rates, a shift toward the outpatient setting and changes in the initial management of stable ischemic heart disease all appear to be responsible for the drop.

Additional findings from this analysis are scheduled to be presented at Heart Rhythm 2021.

A healthcare system in Tennessee is still suing patients for uncollected debt even after it’s been sold and some of its facilities were repurposed by the buyer. 

Being lonely has some correlation to higher use in riskier medications among older adults, according to a new study.