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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.

Healthcare AI newswatch: Great expectations for GenAI, disaster-ready AI, Dr. Oz on payer AI, more
Investors are betting on generative AI to solve costly provider workflow inefficiencies. So are provider executives.
When health accessories grow up, they want to be wearable AI
Wearable health gadgets equipped with AI present myriad opportunities and challenges to healthcare consumers and the healthcare professionals who diagnose, treat and track them.
Timing is everything: Delaying noncardiac surgery after a heart procedure reduces risks
When patients require subsequent noncardiac surgery after a major heart operation, waiting at least 100 days is one way to limit the risk of an adverse event. Read the full analysis in JACC: Advances.
Direct marketing to cardiologists increases uptake of some, but not all, heart failure drugs
Researchers tracked three years of CMS data to explore how meal-based marketing may influence the habits of general and advanced heart failure cardiologists.
Safety update: FDA announces Class I recall due to atherectomy devices breaking during use
The FDA shared a warning about these safety issues in February, but said it was still reviewing the evidence. The agency is now saying the devices “may cause serious injury or death” if used without following the updated instructions for use.

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Healthcare AI Digest

Don’t judge DeepSeek on the innovativeness of its programming. Judge it on the degree to which it shakes up the economics of the AI market.

Nearly half of U.S. adults are wrong about aspirin

Cardiologists have warned for years that healthy adults with no family history of CVD should not be taking low-dose aspirin every day—but as the saying goes, old habits die hard.

To prepare tomorrow’s doctors for evidence-based medicine, instruct today’s med students in dHealth and AI

Medical students are broadly familiar with digital health technologies. Relatedly, they believe AI will play a crucial role in the future of healthcare. These are good signs for the advancement of evidence-based medicine.

TAVR patients admitted on weekend face greater risk of death, complications

The so-called "weekend effect" seen with other cardiovascular diseases appears to exist for patients with severe aortic stenosis as well.

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Last week’s blastoff of the Chinese AI company DeepSeek struck many like a cold bucket of water in the face.

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Despite AI, burnout continues to dog radiologists

Wasn’t radiology the fastest medical specialty to embrace and adopt AI? And yet burnout continues to afflict many if not most radiologists.

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The US physician shortage shows no signs of stopping—what can cardiology leaders do?

The physician shortage that U.S. hospitals and health systems have been dreading is here—and its impact on cardiology could be quite significant.

Blood pressure drug recalled due to black contaminants—FDA highlights safety risks

The recall was put in place after a customer discovered “visible black particulate matter” in a sealed vial. If the contaminant enters a patient's blood vessels, it could lead to serious complications, including a stroke or even death.

Care Delivery

Healthcare AI newswatch: Great expectations for GenAI, disaster-ready AI, Dr. Oz on payer AI, more

When health accessories grow up, they want to be wearable AI

Timing is everything: Delaying noncardiac surgery after a heart procedure reduces risks

Direct marketing to cardiologists increases uptake of some, but not all, heart failure drugs

Safety update: FDA announces Class I recall due to atherectomy devices breaking during use