A new final rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau bans reporting agencies from including medical debts on credit reports or factoring them into credit scores.

Healthcare companies from all over the world are showing off their newest cardiovascular offerings at CES 2025 in Las Vegas.

Radial access is already the primary choice for many cardiologists performing PCI due to a lower risk of complications. The same appears to be true for secondary access during TAVR.

New Year’s Day brought the go-live for California’s new law forbidding the use of AI to deny health insurance claims. 

Mercy Health-Lorain Hospital is suing the county after police revoked protection services for the Catholic facility, which refused to remove the baggie, citing safety concerns. 

Some FDA-approved medical devices age more safely than others. That’s no less true of AI-enabled technologies than of any others. The agency spells out the ramifications in draft guidance issued this week. 

The devices struggle to accurately read blood-oxygen levels in patients with darker and thicker skin. The FDA hopes that changes in design and improved clinical trials will improve clinical efficacy.

“POCUS in early pregnancy helps clinicians more efficiently and accurately diagnose problems without compromising the quality of needed first trimester assessments—saving time, money and stress for patients.”