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If lifestyle medicine is to help U.S. healthcare improve care while reducing costs, the specialty is going to need a hand collecting and coding data at various points of patient care and engagement. 

John Landry, CFO of CVRx

John Landry joins Minneapolis-based CVRx with more than 20 years of experience as a financial leader in the medtech space. 

artificial intelligence AI heart cardiology

Researchers have trained a new AI model to read routine medical images and deliver accurate cardiovascular age assessments.

Damodhar Suresh, MD, executive medical director of St. Elizabeth Healthcare Heart and Vascular Institute in Edgewood, Kentucky. He is also a volunteer current science chair for the International committee for the American Heart Association (AHA), explains how the AHA is helping cardiologists from numerous countries put in place systems of care to standardize how heart attack patients are treated.

The AHA has developed systems of care that can help developing countries improve their treatment strategies for both heart attack and stroke.

medical debt

Close to two-thirds of Americans carrying medical debt, 64%, owe the money to hospitals, whether for inpatient, outpatient or ER services. 

In announcing its proposed changes to the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule for 2027, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services justified the reduced reimbursement by pointing to rates paid by private insurers, which are on average 16% less than what the federal government pays.