If the country avoids slipping into an economic recession over the next few months or even years, it could have the healthcare job market to thank.

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., is crying foul over the damages a jury ordered it to pay Maya Kowalski and her family earlier this month.

A nurse punctured the 68-year-old patient's lung with a feeding tube in 2018, and radiologist Louis Jacobs, MD, subsequently failed to spot the injury on X-ray. 

“Other treatments have failed to date. This injection is working,” said lead author Adam Zoga, MD, MBA, a professor of radiology at Jefferson Health.  

Hospital readmissions, ER visits and major complications were all less likely when TAVR patients used a smartphone app to assist with their recovery. 

Collaboration between various support personnel and buy-in from all stakeholders are crucial to program success, experts wrote in JACR. 

Medmo has now expanded nationwide, supporting clients including imaging centers, primary care groups, large hospital systems and virtual health providers. 

Researchers evaluated two techniques for predicting PPM after TAVR, comparing them to how cardiologists typically check for PPM in day-to-day practice.