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.

High costs may be keeping working-age heart patients from seeking care
When working-age adults develop cardiovascular disease, it often ends up eating up a significant amount of their income. Are insurance companies doing enough to help these patients?
Vascular surgeons deliver major value in terms of patient outcomes and health system profitability
Vascular surgeons play a critical role in today's evolving healthcare landscape. However, researchers noted, they often do not get the respect or appreciation they deserve.
A ‘disquieting plateau’: Healthcare costs are up, but survival among heart patients stays the same
The cardiovascular mortality rate in the United States decreased dramatically from 2000 to 2011. Since then, however, it has remained relatively unchanged.
Nearly half of all surgeons have considered leaving the profession due to burnout
Burnout remains one of the biggest issues in modern healthcare. More than 1,500 surgeons, including many from the field of cardiac surgery, provided feedback for a new report on that very topic.
Moderate valve oversizing during TAVR boosts survival—too much may be less beneficial
Oversizing transcatheter heart valves can improve TAVR outcomes. There is still a reason to be cautious, however, especially when patients are receiving a balloon-expandable valve.

Nurse educator: To secure staff buy-in on AI, apply Gartner’s Hype Cycle

Nurse leaders seeking AI acceptance from those they lead would do well to apply psychological insights along with technical tips.

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Coronary sinus reducer linked to improvements in patients with refractory angina—but questions remain

Treatment with the device is consistently safe, but researchers still think more data is required before reaching any conclusions about its efficacy.

Palliative care plays an essential role in heart failure care

New HFSA recommendations highlight the importance of integrating palliative care into the day-to-day care of heart failure patients.

Pericarditis: New guidance takes on the diagnosis and management of a challenging heart condition

Pericarditis, inflammation of the pericardium, accounts for approximately 5% of all emergency department evaluations for chest pain. These new recommendations are designed to help guide clinicians through the ins and outs of patient care.

Healthcare AI today: Bad health advice, ChatGPT 5 ‘highly reliable’ for healthcare, Colorado punts, more

Accepting medical guidance from a large language model landed a 60-year-old man in the emergency room.

AI-aided marketing is driving medical tourism upward, onward

From boutique clinics in Mexico to medical spas in Europe to top-tier academic medical centers in the U.S., healthcare organizations courting medical tourists are enjoying boom times.

Healthcare AI today: AMA drills into Trump plan, Illinois forbids AI talk therapy, Mayo Clinic speeds ahead (again)

The AMA doesn’t refute much of the Trump AI Action Plan so much as amplify some of its talking points. One exception is the plan’s open disdain for ‘woke’ AI.

4 ways clinical AI can complement—rather than compete with—patient-centered care

If humanistic medicine is to endure the slow-motion AI tsunami flooding the healthcare landscape, humans will have to see those two forces—humanistic medicine and healthcare AI—not as oppositional to each other but as potentially synergistic.

Care Delivery

High costs may be keeping working-age heart patients from seeking care

Vascular surgeons deliver major value in terms of patient outcomes and health system profitability

A ‘disquieting plateau’: Healthcare costs are up, but survival among heart patients stays the same

Nearly half of all surgeons have considered leaving the profession due to burnout

Moderate valve oversizing during TAVR boosts survival—too much may be less beneficial