Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

ACC launches cardiovascular disease prevention program in Saudi Arabia

The American College of Cardiology and the Saudi Heart Association have launched a series of forums for physicians focused on preventing cardiovascular disease in Saudi Arabia.

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FDA approves once-a-month dosing option for cardiovascular medication

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a once-monthly, 300 mg dose of alirocumab (Praluent), an injectable proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitor used to treat adults with high low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol.

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CVIS Across the Enterprise: Transforming Reporting & Image Access at Northwestern

Sponsored by Siemens Healthineers

The vision was clear. The experienced heart and vascular team at the Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute in Chicago needed a cardiovascular information system (CVIS) to stretch across its seven hospitals and 100 ambulatory care centers, physician offices and clinics. 

Cardiologist’s teenage son creates coding system that could save lives following MIs

Ben Wald, a 16-year-old from London, has created a coding system that could help save the lives of patients following MIs, the Evening Standard reports.

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Dyads & Data, Better Together: Talk Data to Strengthen Your Leadership Team

Data are an essential support for administrators and clinicians working together in healthcare. Choose datasets that reflect the practice’s goals and priorities, help you maintain a pulse on the health of the practice and spark the conversations that you and your leadership partner(s) must have to function at your combined best.

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House Calls: Navigating the Slippery Slope Between Hospital & Home

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.

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A Question of Incentive: Will Bundles Give Cardiac Rehab a Boost?

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.  

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Biking to work may reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular mortality

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.

Around the web

GE HealthCare said the price of iodine contrast increased by more than 200% between 2017 to 2023. Will new Chinese tariffs drive costs even higher?

Several key trends were evident at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 meeting, including new CT and MR technology and evolving adoption of artificial intelligence.