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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.

Primary care as public utility: Imagine that, researchers urge
A team of healthcare scholars is making U.S. states an offer they hope the border-defined polities won’t refuse: If you’ll pay for the reinvention of primary care, we’ll help sell the public on the rightness of measured, state-level efforts to preserve the profession.
Walmart expands virtual patient care offerings with Teladoc integration
Teladoc, the popular telehealth platform, will provide urgent care, dermatology and nutrition support through Walmart’s existing virtual patient care platform. The companies made the announcement Thursday.
How to use ambient AI in healthcare as litigious winds begin to blow: 10 tips from experienced attorneys
As a class-action lawsuit gets rolling in California over the use of ambient AI in healthcare, a national law firm is drawing takeaways for hospitals and other provider organizations. Makes sense: All AI-equipped providers are potential targets for similar litigation now.
American Heart Association takes on cardiac amyloidosis with new initiative
One of the project's biggest goals is helping clinicians identify patients in need of care earlier than ever.
Have clinicians been wrong about how they diagnose PAD?
The ankle-brachial index, a noninvasive diagnostic test for peripheral artery disease, may provide even more value than clinicians previously realized.

FDA warns that smartphone-compatible diabetes devices may not work properly

Smartphones have made it easier than ever for patients to monitor their own health, but the technology is far from infallible.

Heart failure patients see benefits from home-based rehab

Many heart failure patients still skip cardiac rehab altogether. Offering a home-based option could potentially help reverse that trend.

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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.

Care Delivery

Primary care as public utility: Imagine that, researchers urge

Walmart expands virtual patient care offerings with Teladoc integration

How to use ambient AI in healthcare as litigious winds begin to blow: 10 tips from experienced attorneys

American Heart Association takes on cardiac amyloidosis with new initiative

Have clinicians been wrong about how they diagnose PAD?