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New Study Published in JACC: Heart Failure Reveals that Despite Significant Efforts to Improve Acute Heart Failure Treatment Over the Past 20 Years, Management Remains Unchanged

DAIC

As a national community-based cohort, Trajectory and Response to Emergently Administered Therapy for Acute Heart Failure (TREAT-AHF) is a contemporary registry that characterizes a diverse population of 262,673 patients with HF from 2015 to 2022.

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All About Cardiac Remote Patient Monitoring Software

Vector Remote

In response, an increasing number of clinics have chosen to rely on cardiac remote patient monitoring ( RPM ) software. This software is transforming preventative healthcare, as it optimizes clinic management and improves patient care. RPM solutions are improving healthcare outcomes and helping patients lead healthier lives.

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How Interoperability Can Streamline the MIPS Reporting Changes

GEMMS

With the recent changes to MIPS reporting requirements, healthcare providers seek innovative solutions to streamline their reporting processes while maximizing incentives and improving patient care. What is MIPS?

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History & Future of Cardiac Remote Patient Monitoring

Vector Remote

This set the stage for the current remote monitoring landscape where pacemaker, ICD, and implantable loop recorder patients transmit their data to their physician via a device manufacturer’s transceiver on a regular basis. Let’s discuss how the future of cardiac remote patient monitoring can help improve your clinic.

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Changes to MIPS 2024: What Cardiology Clinics Need to Know, Including Quality Payment Program

GEMMS

The Quality category emphasizes the delivery of high-quality care, Promoting Interoperability focuses on efficient information exchange, Improvement Activities encourage participation in initiatives to enhance patient care, and Cost evaluates the overall resource utilization efficiency.

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Resource utilisation and outcomes of people with heart failure in England: a descriptive analysis of linked primary and secondary care data - the PULSE study

Open Heart

Patients with a recorded HF diagnosis (new (incident) or existing (prevalent)) based on clinical codes or measures of ejection fraction between 2015 and 2019 were included. Conclusions HF is associated with high levels of healthcare resource use, mortality, HHF and comorbidities.

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Observations from the present study provide benchmark data for improving patient care and effectively utilizing healthcare resources. Outcomes in Presyncope Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study. Annals of Emergency Medicine March 2015 ; Volume 65, Issue 3, Pages 268–276.e6 18) Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy et al.