More than three-quarters of nonfederal acute care hospitals had an EHR system in 2014, an eight-fold increase from six years earlier, according to an Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology report released on April 16.

Older adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) should be physically active and should control heart disease risk factors such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and smoking, according to an American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statement released on April 20.

A cardiologist accused in a murder-for-hire scheme entered a plea of not guilty on April 15. The police filed charges, which included allegations of illegal prescriptions, arson, weapons stashed behind a sliding bookcase and a plot to murder a fellow cardiologist, after they searched his home in Sand Points, N.Y.

The American Medical Association (AMA) appointed cardiologists to lead two of its committees, the organization announced on April 17.

Healthcare-related data breaches increased between 2010 and 2013, according to an analysis of an online database maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. During that time period, health plans and clinicians reported 949 breaches had affected 29.1 million records.

Guns, drugs, arson and a plot to murder a fellow cardiologist: That is the list of offenses police have charged against a cardiologist in New York after agents searched his home in Sand Points, N.Y.

Although corporate wellness programs are becoming more common, they have various criteria and most do not focus on cardiovascular disease and stroke prevention, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Stroke Association (ASA).

The trick to medication adherence may be to shift the focus from patient to provider. At least in the case of dabigatran, modifiable practices at Veterans Affairs sites appeared to make a difference in whether patients with atrial fibrillation took their anticoagulant most of the time.