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The FDA’s fledgling Digital Health Advisory Committee (DHAC) only held its first meeting last week, but it has already committed its thinking to writing.
Compensation for heart specialists continues to climb. What does this say about cardiology as a whole? Could private equity's rising influence bring about change? We spoke to MedAxiom CEO Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, a veteran cardiologist himself, to learn more.
It’s been years since AI proponents started promising big returns on healthcare providers’ investments in the technology. The results have yet to catch up with the pitches. What’s the holdup?
SCAI celebrated cardiologists William W. O'Neill, MD, and Cindy L. Grines, MD, for the important roles they played in the development of primary PCI. “It was challenging,” Grines explained. “We had the pharmaceutical industry that was anti-primary angioplasty and we had a lot of our own colleagues that were anti-primary angioplasty."
Medtronic has launched new research into AI's potential to identify patients with severe aortic stenosis and other worrying symptoms. The company hopes to overcome longstanding health disparities and reach individuals who may otherwise go untreated.
Key collaborators across the healthcare AI life cycle now have a common set of principles to which they can hold each other. And that means everyone from developers and researchers to providers, regulators and even patients.
Two-fifths of leaders at academic medical centers, 41%, see reducing average length of patient stay as far and away the No. 1 “most untapped” strategy to turn around falling operating margins.
A new study from researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center should put minds at ease that the conservative management approach will not result in litigation when guidelines are followed.
Providers and payers disagree on a lot of things. But the camps are united in their appreciation of workers who have skills relevant to advancing GenAI in healthcare.
Critics say the model caters to the wealthy while taking primary care physicians out of circulation for everyone else. Not so, respond concierge proponents.
Hospitals short on cash are more likely than their financially flush counterparts to offer patients interest-accruing loans or credit cards to pay for their care.
Compensation for heart specialists continues to climb. What does this say about cardiology as a whole? Could private equity's rising influence bring about change? We spoke to MedAxiom CEO Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, a veteran cardiologist himself, to learn more.
The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals.
As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”
