Better documentation and billing practices are key to securing reimbursement, avoiding denials and protecting diminishing margins for catheterization laboratories. 

The American College of Cardiology is looking for six inspiring individuals who are living well with heart disease to be featured on its patient-focused website CardioSmart.

Remote monitoring of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and pacemakers shows marked improvement in patient outcomes, if only patients and providers would use it. 

Cardiovascular medical education programs feel increased pressure to incorporate simulation training in their curricula. 

After the successful launch of “TCT Goes Tablet” at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference in 2013, this year’s conference organizers have expanded their use of digital platforms.

MedAxiom conducted a symposium June 18-20 in Beaver Creek, Colo., that offered pointers to directors, physicians and other professionals for improving the quality and efficiency of their cardiovascular service lines. Here are some of the lessons shared.

Depending on whom you listen to, robotically assisted mitral valve repair is either still on the rise, already past its prime or currently plateauing as the very definition of a boutique medical procedure...

Heart patients taking ivabradine did not experience a higher survival rate over placebo in a trial published online Aug. 31 in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the 2014 European Society of Cardiology Congress in Barcelona.