Emergency medical services (EMS) providers currently have no means or clinical tools to know the outcome of the treatment they provided to patients suffering from heart attack during transportation to the hospital. In response, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) will launch eReport EMS in 2018 to allow providers to access this information.

At four grocery stores around Tampa Bay, Florida, people can pop into a private room near the pharmacy and chat with a physician or pediatrician via teleconference about simple medical problems such as sore throats, rashes or colds.

Medical errors contribute to more than 250,000 deaths in the United States each year, according to a 2016 Johns Hopkins study. But these mistakes are hard to track because death certificates rarely capture them.

Paying for call coverage isn’t always an option and, even when it is, sometimes it’s more bandage than cure. The priority should be addressing long-term physician satisfaction.

There’s certainly more to Laurent Duvernay-Tardif than meets the eye—and the Kansas City Chiefs’ 6-foot-5, 321-pound right guard is plenty to take in.

The days of physicians saying, “I want this” are fading fast, if not gone, in many locations, as hospitals restructure purchasing around committee decision making and formal processes.

“In a business that’s constantly changing, there are always areas for improvement,” said Cathleen Biga, RN, MSN, a member of the Cardiovascular Business editorial advisory board. Cathie shared the sentiment with my colleague Daniel Allar, who was interviewing her about the upcoming American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Summit that she co-directs and we’ll be attending.

Peer-to-peer support benefits patients, but the model needs to change rapidly to keep up with treatment innovations.