On the afternoon of July 25, Republicans in the U.S. Senate opened debate on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), with 50 senators voting in favor of what’s called a motion to proceed, or MTP, opening the door to the chamber offering numerous amendments to craft some sort of repeal bill.

Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Illinois, has lost about $1 million per month in profits from cardiology-related care since cardiologists stopped practicing in March, reports The State Journal-Register.

Cardiologists saw a slight bump in compensation in 2017 compared to last year, with an average increase of 0.5 percent increase, according to the American Medical Group Association’s (AMGA) annual medical group compensation and productivity survey. This is on the heels of a 6.9 percent increase from 2015 to 2016.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- iRhythm Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:IRTC), a leading digital health care solutions company focused on the advancement of cardiac care, announced today the appointment of Bruce G. Bodaken, member of the faculty at University of California, Berkeley in the Division of Health Policy Management, and Ralph Snyderman, M.D., Chancellor Emeritus and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine at Duke University to its Board of Directors.

Royal Philips has reached an agreement to buy TomTec, a producer of image analysis software based in Germany, for an undisclosed sum. The deal was announced July 18.

The National Institutes of Health’s Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has awarded $1.6 million to the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Cardiovascular Center in Milwaukee.

In a new analysis of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, data shows that cardiac arrest receives just a fraction of the organization’s monetary support even though it’s the leading cause of death in the U.S.

A new report from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) calls for primary care physicians to begin offering behavioral counseling on healthy lifestyles to patients with low cardiovascular disease risks. The method serves as a way to prevent the onset of the condition and reduce costs.