Care Delivery

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.

AI bubble burst

Healthcare AI today: AI bubble may burst, AI hype and hope, agentic AI coming on strong

What do you get when you fall in love with AI in healthcare? A guy with a pin to burst your bubble. 

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Pig kidney removed from New Hampshire man after record-setting 271 days

Tim Andrews, 67, is still alive and is back on the waiting list for a human donor. However, the success of his highly experimental procedure means more patients are scheduled to get genetically modified animal organs.

Pensive Doctor

Healthcare AI today: Efficiency vs. effectiveness, ChatEHR, inspiring AI leader, more

Just because it’s efficient doesn’t mean it’s effective. Nowhere is this thought more deserving of reflection than in healthcare AI—especially when it’s applied to clinical decision support.

AI spending investing

Healthcare AI today: Spending skyrockets, UnitedHealth finetunes AI claims processing, more

If you’ve sensed healthcare AI spending has been going extra-gangbusters over the past year or so, your perceptions are impressively attuned.

An Illinois appellate judge upheld a pervious trial victory that cleared and central Illinois cardiologist Amit Dande, MD, and Prairie Cardiovascular Consults LLP of alleged misdiagnosis of the severity of a patient's heart condition that led to his death prior to a schedule percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Judge files lawsuit over husband’s death—alleges heart symptoms were mismanaged

The patient reported chest pain multiple times and had a family history of heart disease. According to the lawsuit, however, he was never referred to a cardiologist. 

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Most adults know nothing about CKM syndrome—but it impacts nearly everyone

Nearly 90% of adults are believed to already have at least one risk factor of CKM syndrome. The American Heart Association hopes patient education and physician collaborations can help increase awareness about this dangerous condition.

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Hospital in Mexico earns first heart failure certification of its kind

A facility outside the United States has received the American Heart Association's Comprehensive Heart Failure Center Certification for the first time.

patient experience

Healthcare AI today: Where’s the AI ROI?, AI messaging truth check, AI burnout busters, more

Provider organizations are using generative AI for all sorts of use cases. It’s delivering impressive returns in two—tech support and patient experience.