More than 15 million people had medical coverage through the individual health insurance market as of the end of last year, a 46 percent increase from the previous year, according to data released April 29 by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The American Heart Association (AHA) announced a new initiative focused on making guidelines available to physicians sooner and updating them more often.

Due to unrest in Baltimore, the American Heart Association (AHA) canceled its Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions, which was scheduled for April 29 to May 1 at the Hilton hotel in Baltimore.

Fifteen years ago, cardiac electrophysiologists may have felt like kid siblings who had to share a bedroom with an older brother or sister. That has changed. 

As an early career electrophysiologist, Richard I. Fogel, MD, learned to raise his hand when projects needed a captain. Now he’s CEO of the St. Vincent Medical Group in Indianapolis and president of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS). His formula? Listen, ask good questions, surround yourself with talented people and let them do their jobs, he explains in a Q&A with Cardiovascular Business.

Spend any time online and it’s not hard to stumble across countless advice articles on how to maintain a professional presence on social media.

Finally. The approval of a designation for interventional cardiologists allows the subspecialists to be recognized by Medicare for who they are and what they do. And what a difference it makes.

Remember the brouhaha a few years back when techies demonstrated at a conference that they could hack into implantable medical devices such as pacemakers? Two of those security pioneers announced that they recruited two unnamed hospitals in the U.S. to beta test Wattsupdoc, an add-on kit that spots malware by monitoring AC power consumption.