AI was one of the biggest stories at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2023 conference in Philadelphia. Researchers presented new data about heart attack care, voice recognition algorithms, digital stethoscopes and more. 

Monique Rasband, KLAS vice president of strategy and research for imaging, shares the trends she is seeing in the specialty.

“Going forward, patients and medical teams have a choice of two pathways for chest pain relief: chest pain medication or PCI," one cardiologist said. 

“Nearly 300,000 cardiac arrests occur in hospitals in the United States each year, and only about 25% of people survive to hospital discharge after these types of events,” according to one author of a new analysis published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

Firas Zahr, MD, spoke to Cardiovascular Business about early data on the Medtronic TMVR device. His team's study is designed to follow patients for a total of five years.

The study focused on patients 65 years old and older who underwent treatment in one of 21 high-income countries. 

One key difference between this new risk calculator and previous methods is that it does not consider a patient's race or ethnicity. It does, however, consider such factors as where the patient lives, their education and their income level. 

Three-fourths of hospital board members have no clinical background. Given this lack, how are hospitals supposed to effectively conduct quality- and performance-improvement efforts?