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.

AI news & views in brief: State regulation ban or none, AI in healthcare advertising, more
Will there or won’t there be a federal moratorium on state-level regulation of AI? That’s only one question healthcare stakeholders are asking as 2025’s time begins running out.
AI has already transformed TAVR care—and the best is yet to come
Advanced AI technologies are starting to play a bigger role in TAVR care, helping cardiologists plan ahead, make critical decisions and predict potential complications. Looking to the future, though, it is clear this is just the beginning.
Nurses back on the march against AI in healthcare
The nationwide movement of nurses against AI has received an energy infusion.
Medicare data reveal ‘highly concerning’ TAVR trends—are hospital rankings to blame?
Hospitals could be turning away high-risk heart patients to help their TAVR programs receive a higher ranking, according to new research published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.
Popular weight-loss drugs don’t tip the scales against Alzheimer’s
Semaglutide alters Alzheimer’s biomarkers but doesn’t slow the disease’s advance.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

Physicians are embracing clinical GenAI—in theory, at least

More than two-thirds of U.S. physicians have changed their minds about generative AI over the past year. In doing so, the re-thinkers have raised their level of trust in the technology to help improve healthcare.

New cardiac imaging strategy could reduce ICA, PCI rates

Radiologists with Massachusetts General Hospital found that the selective use of cardiac CT and AI-based CAD evaluations could make a significant impact on patient care.

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Cardiologist salary update: Compensation jumps to $525K per year, No. 3 among all specialties

In addition, cardiologists average an additional $75,000 per year in incentive-based bonuses. That number is only higher for two other specialties.

Measles is on the march from airports to places near us

The U.S. eradicated measles in 2000. Today it’s making a comeback. What explains the unhappy revival?

Recent Rite Aid store closings exceed 200

Right Aid is turning out the lights in 53 more stores across nine states.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

Submitted for consideration by all healthcare AI stakeholders: 10 principles, 6 commitments, 1 direction

Key collaborators across the healthcare AI life cycle now have a common set of principles to which they can hold each other. And that means everyone from developers and researchers to providers, regulators and even patients.

Care Delivery

AI news & views in brief: State regulation ban or none, AI in healthcare advertising, more

AI has already transformed TAVR care—and the best is yet to come

Nurses back on the march against AI in healthcare

Medicare data reveal ‘highly concerning’ TAVR trends—are hospital rankings to blame?

Popular weight-loss drugs don’t tip the scales against Alzheimer’s