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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How a New Hampshire heart surgeon racked up 21 malpractice settlements

A law firm hired to investigate the situation reviewed more than 300,000 pages of documents and conducted more than 250 hours of interviews. 

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AI in mental healthcare: 5 questions & answers

It stands to reason that the branch of healthcare most reliant on the use of language in clinical practice would embrace large language AI. But is U.S. mental healthcare on board with the notion?

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Cardiologists perform world’s first TAVR with new ultra-low profile valve

The 88-year-old patient was originally not seen as a viable candidate for TAVR or surgery.

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Clinics tap GPT-4 to ease charting burden, improve patient care

The hope is that the GPT-4-based notes assistant will ease the burden of manual charting on physicians while also offering patients more personalized visit summaries, Carbon Health announced June 5. 

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Healthcare entities offering employees direct-to-consumer telemedicine could cut costs nearly 25%

“This research shows the clear financial benefits when hospitals and health systems offer telemedicine services directly to their own employees."

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Incorrect place-of-service codes resulted in Medicare overpayments totaling in the millions

The audit revealed that Medicare overpaid by approximately $22.5 million due to incorrect place-of-service coding completed by practitioners.  

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.