U.S. News and World Report has bundled heart bypass and two other types of operations with the conditions congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a new rating called Best Hospitals for Common Care. The analysis also targets very low-volume hospitals with poor outcomes.

The federal government announced on Twitter that 146,000 people signed up for health insurance coverage during the extension period from March 15 to April 30.

A panel of experts recommended that remote monitoring become the standard of care for patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), according to a consensus statement from the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS). The statement was published online in Heart Rhythm on May 13.

The risk of short-term, life-threatening cardiac events in patients admitted to the hospital after a negative emergency department (ED) evaluation is low—really low, like one in 1,817. And that number, researchers reported, is from a conservative evaluation.

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today announced important new data presented during the Heart Rhythm Society's (HRS) 36th annual Scientific Session supporting improved outcomes and cost-effectiveness of the CardioMEMS™ HF System for the management of Class III heart failure patients.

The evidence favors remote monitoring using implantable cardiac devices yet few take advantage of the resource.

BOSTON—Patients who had remote monitoring in their implantable electronic cardiac devices had lower all-cause hospitalization costs and recurrent hospitalizations compared with patients without remote monitoring capabilities, according to a large, retrospective, cohort study.

A comparative effectiveness study of more than 250,000 patients implanted with cardiac devices between 2008 and 2011 found that embedding remote monitoring technology led to improved survival.