Patients learned that their names, social security numbers, banking numbers and credit card information were all potentially exposed as a result of the attack.

Artificial intelligence will be one of the hottest topics at the upcoming American Society of Echocardiography meeting in National Harbor, Maryland. 

Patient names, addresses, social security numbers and even medical histories were exposed as a result of the attack, which went unnoticed for more than two months. 

Researchers used multiple AI models to evaluate EHR data from more than 322,000 heart failure patients. By identifying these subtypes, the group thinks clinicians could perform better risk assessments and make more informed treatment decisions. 

Click through a series of photos of cardiology-related technologies from the world's largest health IT conference.

When should a clinician tell a patient they have a gene variant that appeared incidentally but may have ramifications for cardiovascular health?

Browse a selection of photos from the American College of Cardiology's annual meeting in New Orleans. The pictures highlight key moments, new technologies and much more from the big show. 

Hospital end-users ranked the CVIS and hemodynamic systems they are using and shed light on their working relationships with IT vendors.