Randomized controlled clinical trials remain the gold standard for providing evidence to guide clinical care, but the growing might of computational modeling is likely to make tomorrow’s trials more efficient.  

Cardiologist Shashi Agarwal, MD, pleaded guilty to charges that he referred patients for diagnostic imaging in exchange for cash kickbacks as part of a cash-for-patients scheme with a diagnostic facility in Orange, N.J.

Self-assessment for heart disease risk is now available as a mobile app launched by the Million Hearts initiative. Developed by the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Heart Health Mobile is available through the foundation and iTunes, and will be available in HTML5 responsive design for non-Apple devices in March.

The American College of Physicians (ACP) will pilot and test a social cloud-based program designed to improve the outcomes in patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Hospitals may breathe easier after a study published online Feb. 13 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found no strong relationships between mortality and 30-day readmissions rates for acute MI, heart failure and pneumonia.

Participants in integration efforts, whether from physician practices or from hospital administrations, experience significant and unanticipated difficulty in effectively merging previously separate organizations. Integrating entities uniformly reported a cadence to the integration process that can be characterized in stages.

Researchers looking at hospital data for patients admitted with acute MI, heart failure and pneumonia have found little evidence of an association between risk-adjusted rates of mortality and readmission.

A recent survey of cardiologists conducted by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) shows that cardiologists are practicing what they preach and are stewards of their everyday prevention messaging to patients.