Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

Work-life balance chief concern among medical residents

Achieving an ideal work-life balance is the toughest challenge faced by medical residents, according to a Medscape survey featuring responses from more than 1,900 residents.

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Cleveland Clinic ranked No. 1 in heart care for 24th straight year

The Cleveland Clinic was named the top hospital in the country for cardiology and heart surgery by the U.S. News & World Report—a distinction it has held since 1995.

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Hospitals, insurers refine cost estimator tools to avoid sticker shock

George Hahn of Philadelphia had two echocardiograms conducted at the same hospital a year apart, using the same insurance—the only difference was one cost $3,000 more than the other. No doubt Hahn’s plight is similar to many other Americans—and hospitals are acting, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Employee who embezzled $1M from cardiology practice sentenced to 2.5 years in prison

Monica Rigsby, a former office manager at Georgia Pediatric Cardiology near Atlanta, was sentenced to two years and six months in prison after she was convicted of embezzling more than $1 million from the practice, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

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Cardiologist files $15M defamation lawsuit against VCU colleagues and physician group

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) cardiologist Tiziano Scarabelli, MD, filed a $15 million defamation lawsuit against four colleagues and the VCU Health System’s physician group. His attorneys claim he suffered retaliation after raising concerns over patients receiving insufficient heart care during and after chemotherapy treatments, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Elderly patients vulnerable to ‘post-hospital syndrome’

In a recent article, The New York Times dove into the topic of “post-hospital syndrome”—a term Yale University cardiologist Harlan Krumholz, MD, coined in 2013 to describe the period of vulnerability following a hospital discharge.

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‘Superman’-like expectations contribute to physician burnout, suicide

“Unless we as a profession have a dialogue about burnout more broadly, all the things we do in training will have a limited impact,” Tait Shanafelt, MD, chief wellness officer at Stanford Medicine, told Kaiser Health News.

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Genetic screening could detect CVD, cancer risk in 3-4M Americans

That estimate alone should be enough to drive the goal of routine genomic screening in healthcare forward, a researcher wrote in the Annals of Internal Medicine, but hurdles remain with implementing that plan into clinical care.

Around the web

GE HealthCare said the price of iodine contrast increased by more than 200% between 2017 to 2023. Will new Chinese tariffs drive costs even higher?

Several key trends were evident at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 meeting, including new CT and MR technology and evolving adoption of artificial intelligence.