If you want to avoid damaging litigation, concentrate on dialogue and details. Cardiologists who fail to maintain detailed, two-way conversations with patients and thoroughly assess diagnostic data are at risk of negligence lawsuits, a study shows.

IT is a just a tool. It takes people to make IT effective. In complex organizations such as hospitals and healthcare systems, good or bad management may make or break adoption of EHRs. That was the hypothesis that researchers tested in a recent study.

EHRs promised a new era of transparency among specialists and subspecialists. But, have they lived up to that golden promise? Results from two surveys suggest otherwise.

Cardiologists and other clinicians might be wary of giving patients direct access to their EHR while they are in the hospital, but their concerns decreased after using it in a real-world setting, according to a study.

Apple launched an open-source project that will facilitate medical research, including an iPhone app for monitoring cardiovascular health.

Cleveland Clinic announced today the appointment of Lars Svensson, M.D., Ph.D, as Chairman of its Heart & Vascular Institute.

The FDA gave a green light to a dual-device cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) system designed to maximize the compression-decompression process and improve blood circulation to the heart and other organs.

Same-day discharge with elective PCIs has picked up steam in recent years. Now it looks like same-day elective implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation could follow suit.