Akron General Heart & Vascular Center is a leader in STEMI care in Northeast Ohio, each year besting the national average for STEMI mortality rates.

The wireless technology that allows implantable medical devices to assist people with heart disease also is a potential source of some of their greatest security risks.

The cardiovascular service line at Norman Heart Hospital in Norman, Okla., has been successful in several project management efforts.

When making decisions about a patient, do physicians follow clinical guidelines and clinical evidence, or does advertising and news coverage directly or indirectly influence a physician’s decisions?

A cardiologist and his medical corporation agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges related to improper compensation from Medicare.

Sandeep Janhar, MD, director of the heart failure program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York, challenges the wisdom behind recent passage of state legislation that removes physician oversight of nurse practitioners for primary care. The move overestimates cost savings and underestimates a doctor’s clinical value, he wrote in an opinion piece in the New York Times.

Gary Balady, MD, director of Preventive Cardiology and the Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Laboratories at Boston Medical Center (BMC), will receive the American Heart Association's (AHA) most prestigious tribute, the Paul Dudley White Award, at the group's annual Heart Ball on May 3.

e-MDs, a leading provider of electronic health records (EHRs) and practice management (PM) solutions, today congratulatedJennifer Brull, M.D., FAAFP, a solo family physician in Kansas and e-MDs customer since 2007, for being named a 2013 Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Champion. Dr. Brull was recognized along with eight other public and private practices across the country for success in achieving blood pressure control rates greater than 70 percent.