To identify the most pressing topics for industry leaders, Cardiovascular Business spoke to course director Cathie Biga, MSN, RN, about the agenda for the 2018 American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Summit.

The FDA cleared Viz.ai’s clinical support tool on Feb. 13, allowing the software that alerts clinicians to the possibility of a stroke to be marketed in the United States.

Financial challenges and governmental mandates were the top two concerns of hospital CEOs for the third straight year in 2017, according to a survey, and personnel shortages cracked the top three for the first time in that span.

Nearly a quarter of all emergency department (ED) visits in 2015 for U.S. patients older than 45 were made by diabetics, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

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.