GE Healthcare has announced it will sell its revenue cycle, ambulatory care and workforce management software units to private equity firm Veritas Capital for $1.05 billion, following earlier plans for General Electric to sell assets and rumors the entire company could be broken up.

The number of patients admitted to U.S. hospitals for infective endocarditis (IE) related to IV drug use has more than doubled over the last several years, racking up an average of $72,000 in expenses each time.

Negative online physician reviews are not mimicked in patient satisfaction surveys, according to a study published April 2018 in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

In a blog published March 29 by Health Affairs, four researchers expressed the need for creative reimbursement systems to “promote accountability” for outcomes related to devices that treat cardiovascular disease (CVD).

If patients end up sitting around for too long, they may just walk out. According to a recent report by Vitals, long wait times led to 30 percent of patients leaving appointments at least once and 20 percent reported changing physicians.

Death rates from heart disease decreased by 68 percent for Americans from 1968 to 2015, according to a new analysis, but the mortality decline was greater for whites than blacks.

Diagnosed diabetes in the U.S. cost a total of $327 billion in 2017, according to a new report commissioned by the American Diabetes Association published online March 22 in Diabetes Care.

The American Heart Association (AHA) issued a statement March 29 applauding Congress for including funding increases for federal programs aimed at combating cardiovascular disease in its final omnibus spending bill.