March 2012

The hospital is a peculiar business. It is multipronged and loses business on a lot of procedures but it has to keep doing them. It loses money on Medicaid patients and makes money on private patients.

Experts hash out the most updated data on endovascular vein harvesting and radial artery grafting, and which surgical strategies produce the best patient outcomes.

Physicians, researchers and a malpractice attorney provide varied perspectives on the current state of defensive medicine and reform efforts.

New developments in tracers could make cardiac PET the more precise approach for absolute quantification of myocardial blood flow.

Cardiovascular practices that strive to remain independent need to creatively manage budgets and clinical practice to avoid capsizing.

To best utilize remote heart failure (HF) monitoring, administrators need to ensure that physicians and nurses have the proper resources and training.

An important clinical link exists between influenza and cardiovascular disease. While no unequivocal causal relationship has been established between influenza infection and acute MI, influenza is estimated to be responsible for approximately 36,000 deaths and 300,000 hospitalizations annually in the U.S. Childhood and chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, in adults are risk factors for poor outcomes during influenza epidemics.

In June 2011, Southcoast Hospitals Group, a three-hospital healthcare system in southeast Massachusetts, formed care centers and service lines.