Research suggests that female physicians provide more patient-centered care than their male counterparts. Does that translate into more or less use of healthcare resources such as office visits or hospital use? Neither, according to a recently published study.

Adding a telehealth component to standard health and social care is not a cost-effective approach for managing patients with long-term diseases such as congestive heart failure, according to results of a large, randomized controlled trial. The study was published online March 21 in BMJ.

Call it exercising your options: Physically fit physicians and other healthcare professionals are more likely than couch potatoes to counsel patients to adopt an active lifestyle, according to results presented March 22 at an American Heart Association scientific session in New Orleans.

Pictures don’t have a monopoly on being powerful vehicles for conveying information. Sometimes a table or figure packs a punch. A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine is a case in point.

Few cardiac units have adopted many of the management practices that have proven effective in manufacturing, according to a recent study. “We have good understanding of what it means to practice evidence-based medicine,” the lead author told Cardiovascular Business. But in terms of evidence-based management, “we are still in the dark ages.”

Starting Jan. 1, 2014, all states must have fully operational health insurance exchanges in place.

After a lengthy delay, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that, beginning on May 1, it will implement edits to prevent payment for services ordered or referred by providers not enrolled in the Medicare program.

Christina Hockaday, MHSA, has been named the new administrator and COO for Heart Hospital of Lafayette and vice president of cardiovascular services at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Lafayette, La.