With the March 12 application date for the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced model approaching, Keely Macmillan—the general manager of BPCI Advanced at Archway Health—spoke with Cardiovascular Business about the program and what health systems should consider before participating.

Pittsburgh, PA, February 7, 2018 — DoctorsReport.com, the new Website and mobile app that give you instant access to data doctors report from almost one million doctors’ offices across the nation, has released its current list of the nation’s 14 Influenza hot spots (by metro area) in the country.

Three United States cardiologists reported on the success of telemedicine in Syria, where nearly half of the country’s healthcare facilities have been damaged or destroyed and many physicians have left due to a deadly civil war.

KFAR MALAL, Israel, Feb. 5, 2018 — Medial EarlySign, a leader of machine-learning based solutions to improve non-communicable disease management, today announced the results of an additional clinical data study in the domain of diabetes — identifying diabetic patients who are at highest risk for having renal dysfunction within one year.

Medical professionals from senior clinicians to nurse practitioners believe that practice variation needs to be reduced in the clinical setting, but they aren’t optimistic about change any time soon, research published in PLOS ONE this month suggests.

Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities that implemented home-based cardiac rehabilitation (HBCR) programs saw a four-fold increase in participation over a six-year period, according to a research letter published Jan. 22 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

A clinical decision support (CDS) system in Taiwan resulted in the cancellation of 42 percent of duplicate orders for medications inputted by physicians, researchers reported in JMIR Medical Informatics.

Survival has markedly improved for the approximately 200,000 patients who experience in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) in the U.S. each year, but patients who arrest during nights and weekends remain less likely to survive than those who suffer IHCA during “on-hours,” according to a study published Jan. 22 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.