This channel includes news on cardiovascular care delivery, including how patients are diagnosed and treated, cardiac care guidelines, policies or legislation impacting patient care, device recalls that may impact patient care, and cardiology practice management.
Demonstrated cost-effectiveness is a highly motivating factor in getting healthcare workers to adopt measures for preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections.
If the budget makes it through Congress intact as submitted—a big if even with the president’s party in the majority in both chambers—healthcare is in for some strict belt-tightening.
Job growth in cardiology is expected to outpace other healthcare specialties in the years ahead. The demand for new cardiologists is so high, however, that the current shortage is not expected to end anytime soon.
TAVR patients presenting with peripheral artery disease face significantly higher in-hospital risks, according to a new study published in Current Problems in Cardiology.
"Small quality differentials combined with large price differentials suggests that health systems have not, on average, realized their potential for better care at equal or lower cost," Harvard researchers found.
A new study published in JACC: Heart Failure offers more evidence that a patient's feelings can strongly influence their risk of poor cardiovascular health.
Results demonstrate how implementing adjusted procedures to limit radiation exposures for children may lower cancer risks and save on health care costs.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a new rule that would expand access to contraception under the ACA “so that all women who need or want birth control are able to obtain it."