Among sweeping changes underway in U.S. healthcare is a brighter spotlight on patients' transitions from hospital to home. What can be done to reduce readmissions during these vulnerable periods and possibly save billions of dollars in the process? Increasingly, an answer lies with mobile integrated teams of providers, often led by paramedics, who take healthcare right into patients' homes.

A plan for increasing use of cardiac rehabilitation (cardiac rehab, or CR) was a few months short of launch when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) tapped the brakes.  

Adults in the United Kingdom who biked to work had a 46 percent lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a 52 percent lower risk of cardiovascular mortality, according to a prospective, population-based study.

An estimated 9.3 million fewer adults would receive statins if physicians adhered to recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) instead of guidelines from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA).

A Medicare portal that shows the statistical methodology used to rate and compare hospitals may not be accurate when it comes to estimating the mortality rate of patients suffering from acute MI (AMI) at smaller hospitals, according to a new study.

Milton Lloyd Godley, one of the first cardiologists in Alexandria, Louisiana, died April 15 at 88 years old, reports The Town Talk.

After two years of hospital discharge, 41.6 percent of Medicare beneficiaries who were hospitalized for MI were taking high-intensity statins with high adherence, 19.1 percent had low adherence and 18.1 percent stopped taking statins, according to a retrospective study.

In an effort to reduce and prevent the incidence of heart disease, researchers in Europe have developed a new tool that designs personalized workouts for patients at risk or living with the condition.