As Cardiovascular Business enters its second decade, our team has been pondering what the magazine’s pre-teen and teen years will be like. Are we looking at dignified maturity or awkward adolescence? 

Six healthcare organizations are joining forces with the goal of streamlining preapproval for patients’ medical treatments. The collaboration, they said, will give patients access to timely, affordable care while reducing administrative burdens for healthcare professionals, hospitals and insurance providers.

A meta-analysis of 29 studies and more than 6 million patients has added to a pile of evidence supporting medicine’s “weekend effect,” according to a study published in Medical Care’s February issue.

Physician compensation has increased across the board over the last five years but cardiologists’ pay has grown less than other specialties, according to SullivanCotter’s 2017 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey.

The newly revised Declaration of Geneva, released in October, contains wording tweaks throughout but also entirely new clauses focused on patient autonomy and physician health.

Kirk N. Garratt, M.Sc, M.D, has been appointed medical director of Christiana Care Health System’s Center for Heart & Vascular Health. Dr. Garratt succeeds Tim Gardner, M.D., who retired after 12 years of dedication to Christiana Care and the Delaware community.

Despite the fact that heart disease is the leading killer of both men and women in high-income countries, female patients aren’t receiving the same level of care, testing or treatment as men suffering cardiovascular disease, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported this week.

Fewer than one in six American patients undergoes cardiac rehabilitation after MI, PCI or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, and participation varies widely by state and region, a new study in Circulation found.