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

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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.

“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."

The investigation also used secure messaging, allowing clinicians to receive real-time alerts via their smartphones to notify them of a possible LVO minutes after the completion of a CT. 

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?

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.

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.