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Practice Management

 - acquisition, alliance, partnership

ATLANTA—Integration can have its highs and lows, even in a good relationship. Leaders from Austin Heart in Texas and St. David’s HealthCare offered an example of each June 12 at the Cardiovascular Service Line Symposium in Atlanta.

 - guidelines, directions, advice

ATLANTA—Healthcare systems struggle under what one strategist sees as a chaotic period of “uber-change.” One way to make progress within this mayhem is to apply standardization and structure.

 - Q&A

MedAxiom will host the Cardiovascular Service Line Symposium June 12-14 in Atlanta. Suzette Jaskie, president and CEO of MedAxiom Consulting, shares details about the program in a Q&A.

 - value

This year’s Cardiovascular Service Line Symposium will provide attendees with tried-and-true examples of service line programs from a diverse group of healthcare professionals. “We no longer are talking about the theory of what will happen,” Suzette Jaskie, president and CEO of MedAxiom Consulting, told Cardiovascular Business. “We are trying to give people tangible, walk-away things that they can take home to programs they can implement.”

 - decision

Annually, one in every 10 patients taking antithrombotic therapy will undergo surgery or some other procedure that puts them at risk of bleeding. In a review published May 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine, physicians offer advice on managing these patients, with communication topping the list.