“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. 

Vivek Reddy, MD, explained that pulsed field ablation is associated with many benefits compared to the current standard of care in electrophysiology. 

More conservative approaches should be considered before direct referral to surgery, experts urged in the journal of Clinical Imaging. 

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.