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.

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Cardiology at the supermarket: Shopping carts upgraded to detect signs of AFib

Attaching ECG sensors to the handles of shopping carts could help identify signs of atrial fibrillation in patients who don't even realize they have it. 

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Top 20 children’s hospitals for cardiology and heart surgery

Did your facility make the cut? For its 2023-2024 list, U.S. News and World Report evaluated data from 119 hospitals and surveyed thousands of pediatric specialists.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

ChatGPT excels at differential diagnostics in hard cases

Today’s generative AI—namely ChatGPT-4—is pretty darned good at parsing out probable diseases in difficult-to-diagnose patient cases.

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Cardiology group hit by cyberattack, exposing data of nearly 182,000 patients

Patient names, addresses, social security numbers and even medical histories were exposed as a result of the attack, which went unnoticed for more than two months. 

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Uber Health will soon deliver provider-ordered OTC medications and groceries to patients

The new offering through the ride-sharing company coincides with the “food as medicine” movement that is growing in popularity.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Implementing point-of-care AI? 5 firm facts to keep in mind

If healthcare AI is to flourish outside of academic research settings and industry R&D departments, it will need to win over its most difficult-to-impress audience: healthcare workers in hospitals.