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Newsweek ranked the 50 best heart hospitals in the world

Cardiologists to celebrate World Heart Day with CCTA webinar

The free webinar, scheduled for Sept. 29, will examine the benefits of using CCTA and FFR-CT to manage chest pain patients. 

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Google’s chief clinical officer: Healthcare AI ‘should happen with clinicians, not to them’

Generative AI of the “large language” kind has been an attention hog over the past 10 or 11 months. The buzz has been so loud and constant that it’s all but asking to be dismissed as hype.

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Cardiologists develop how-to guide for providing high-quality care from the comfort of home

“Many within the healthcare industry believe that cardiovascular care will be increasingly delivered in non-traditional ambulatory settings,” according to one author. “The cardiovascular care community must consider and prepare for this eventuality."

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5 reasons healthcare needs ‘ownership transparency’ now

Do you know who owns your personal favorite doctor’s practice? Could it be a healthcare conglomerate? An insurance company? A private equity firm? Amazon?

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Who benefits—and who doesn’t—when 2 disparate health systems come together as 1?

It’s easy to see the appeal of cross-market hospital mergers to the marrying partners. How these long-distance entwinements help patients is a separate question.

Surgeons with University of Maryland Medical Center transplant a pig heart into a human patient

Surgeons make history again, transplant pig heart into human patient for second time ever

That same team that transplanted a pig heart into a human patient for the very first time in 2022 has now done it again. The patient is currently recovering from the procedure, which occurred on Sept. 20. 

A study that analyzed patient outcomes in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in veterans showed outcomes for on-pump and off-pump procedures over 10 years to be similar. Photo by Jim Lennon

The 50 best hospitals in the world for cardiac surgery

The new ranking, based on extensive survey data gathered by Newsweek, includes a total of 150 hospitals. Seven of the top 10 are located in the United States. 

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