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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.

Medical malpractice lawsuits are rare in sports cardiology—but they can cost providers millions
When doctors are accused of mishandling the heart health of a young athlete, it occasionally ends up being settled in a courtroom.
Healthcare AI today: Nurses called to AI action, Big Beautiful Law, of mice and AI, more
If nurses fail to lead the way toward safe and responsible use of healthcare AI, the profession may lose its voice on emerging technologies.
For patients with complex care needs, AI is helpful—but the human touch is irreplaceable
Primary care providers are excited about the promise AI holds to help them help patients living with multiple chronic conditions. However, they believe these patients will continue to need the human connection they get from their PCPs.
EHR-driven PCI risk assessments could make a world of difference
Researchers with Mayo Clinic have shown that EHR-driven risk assessments could go a long way toward improving care for PCI patients.
Healthcare AI today: Mayo book, fraud busting, ‘shapeless monsters,’ more
Some AI researchers have taken to calling certain LLMs ‘Shoggoths.’ Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Johnson & Johnson pauses use of FDA-approved PFA system to investigate patient complications

Johnson & Johnson MedTech's Varipulse PFA system has been linked to multiple reports of "neurovascular events" in patients. The company hopes to share more information in the days ahead.

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Surgery outperforms PCI in NSTEMI patients with multivessel CAD

CABG was associated with a 41% lower risk of long-term mortality than PCI in a new study of more than 57,000 patients. The full analysis was published in European Heart Journal.

Withings, a French medtech company known for its remote monitoring devices, has multiple new services on display at CES 2025.

CES 2025: Cardiologist check-ups, AI-powered smart mirrors coming to heart patients’ homes

Healthcare companies from all over the world are showing off their newest cardiovascular offerings at CES 2025 in Las Vegas.

Radial secondary access during TAVR limits complications

Radial access is already the primary choice for many cardiologists performing PCI due to a lower risk of complications. The same appears to be true for secondary access during TAVR.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

New Year’s Day brought the go-live for California’s new law forbidding the use of AI to deny health insurance claims.

FDA AI enabled medical devices approval clearance

FDA to hopeful marketers of AI-equipped medical devices: Think beyond your initial approval

Some FDA-approved medical devices age more safely than others. That’s no less true of AI-enabled technologies than of any others. The agency spells out the ramifications in draft guidance issued this week.

Semaglutide linked to ‘significant and consistent’ benefits for heart bypass surgery patients

The popular GLP-1 receptor agonist appears to help limit adverse events and new-onset diabetes in patients with a history of CABG. Researchers shared the full study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

From left to right: Sunita Ferns, MD; Mark Plunkett, MD; Harma Turbendian, MD. Images courtesy of OSF Healthcare.

History made: Young child treated with new heart device for very first time

A care team in Illinois has performed the first heart procedure of its kind on a two-year-old patient diagnosed with Brugada syndrome.

Care Delivery

Medical malpractice lawsuits are rare in sports cardiology—but they can cost providers millions

Healthcare AI today: Nurses called to AI action, Big Beautiful Law, of mice and AI, more

For patients with complex care needs, AI is helpful—but the human touch is irreplaceable

EHR-driven PCI risk assessments could make a world of difference

Healthcare AI today: Mayo book, fraud busting, ‘shapeless monsters,’ more