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Q&A: Successful patient engagement with AI requires ‘human in the loop’ ethos

Patient engagement expert John Deutsch says consumers are already used to “frictionless experiences” when it comes time to catch a ride or buy a coffee. Can AI bring healthcare up to speed?

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Some physicians not only avoid burnout but also find fulfillment. Here’s how they do it.

Of surveyed and interviewed U.S. physicians who showed significant six-month improvement in follow-up vs. baseline wellness checks, 47% attributed the gain to active personal changes. Not far behind were those who credited active work-related changes—40% of the field. 

Heart attack patients treated at for-profit hospitals more likely to be readmitted

Readmission rates are getting lower over time among patients treated at nonprofit hospitals. At for-profit facilities, meanwhile, readmission rates have stayed relatively unchanged.

A majority of medical devices involved in Class I recalls were never required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to undergo premarket or postmarket clinical testing, according to new research published in Annals of Internal Medicine.[1]

High-quality heart failure care is easy to find for many Americans—but care gaps remain

The Heart Failure Society of America has released a new comprehensive look at HF clinics in the United States. The report includes more than 300 programs that serve approximately 626,000 patients.

Sanjiv Narayan, MD, MBChB, MSc, FRCP, an American Heart Association volunteer, director of the electrophysiology research and atrial fibrillation program, and co-founder of the Stanford Arrhythmia Center at Stanford Medicine, sees AI at a major inflection point in cardiology, enabling cardiologists to become more efficient, gain more detailed insights into their patients' risk factors, better answers to clinical questions and help in navigating procedures. But, he said AI will not replace cardiologists.

Will AI replace cardiologists?

AI-based tools are here to stay, but one expert does not see them replacing cardiologists anytime soon. Look at recent trends in radiology, he says, to get a better idea of what cardiology's future may look like.

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Major medical association seeks to build national digital infrastructure to support lifestyle-medicine practice

If lifestyle medicine is to help U.S. healthcare improve care while reducing costs, the specialty is going to need a hand collecting and coding data at various points of patient care and engagement. 

Damodhar Suresh, MD, executive medical director of St. Elizabeth Healthcare Heart and Vascular Institute in Edgewood, Kentucky. He is also a volunteer current science chair for the International committee for the American Heart Association (AHA), explains how the AHA is helping cardiologists from numerous countries put in place systems of care to standardize how heart attack patients are treated.

American Heart Association helping countries all over the world improve care

The AHA has developed systems of care that can help developing countries improve their treatment strategies for both heart attack and stroke.

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Hospitals lead the league in bill collections, but it’s not lonely at the top of that hill

Close to two-thirds of Americans carrying medical debt, 64%, owe the money to hospitals, whether for inpatient, outpatient or ER services. 

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