The new analysis was presented at the AHA Scientific Sessions 2022 conference and simultaneously published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

New research indicates that there is significant reader variability in COVID classifications among different specialties when chest X-rays alone are the diagnostic tool of choice.

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The radiologist involved in the incident indicated that the department’s burdensome workload resulted in reduced reading times, saying that this made their departmental standard of double reading scans “virtually unattainable."

"We expected to see a significant improvement in outcomes for patients with severe or rapidly progressing cardiogenic shock who underwent early ECMO treatment," one specialist said. 

VillageMD, which is majority-owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance, is acquiring Summit Health in a deal valued at $8.9 billion.

The new study, presented at the AHA Scientific Sessions 2022 conference in Chicago, focused on data from more than 2,000 patients. 

Hospitals are rich and poised to get richer while independent physicians and groups continue to take it on the chin, facing ever more onerous pressures to consolidate under the headship of large hospitals, health systems or for-profit practice management companies.

Two late-breaking clinical trials presented at the VIVA Foundation’s VIVA22 conference in Las Vegas highlighted the impact drug-coated balloons can make on patient outcomes. 

MercyOne Central Iowa is mostly back online in the aftermath of a ransomware attack of its parent company, CommonSpirit Health.