The Colloquium announced April 1 that IU Health Blackford Hospital became the first critical care access hospital in America to achieve Colloquium Heart Failure Accreditation.

More than 90 percent of patients who stop and restart statin therapy tolerated the drug long term. The results, published in the April 2 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, used natural language processing software and an EHR to study patients commonly seen in clinical practice.

To avoid readmission penalties, some hospitals delegate resources to programs designed to keep patients from re-entering their doors. But are  hospitals that lack such resources being unduly punished? The New York Times explored the issue.

Physicians led the pack of professions for feeling that they apply their skills most effectively while nurses rose to the top for good dietary habits, according to a recent survey. The Gallup-Healthways Well-being Index found that physicians topped the list for overall well-being.

Florida cardiologist Abdur Razzak Tai, MD, received a six-year sentence in a fraud scheme involving a trust fund set up to compensate victims of the diet drug Fen-Phen. Tai was convicted on six counts of mail fraud and seven counts of wire fraud.

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.