Sat.Feb 19, 2022 - Fri.Feb 25, 2022

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What Entity or Person Serves As ABIM's "Restricted" Contributors?

Dr. Wes

In late 2018 through 2020, The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) was involved in a class action antitrust lawsuit for claims of illegal creation and maintenance of their monopoly power in the market for maintenance of certification (MOC).

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Novel tech throws knock-out punch to ECG improving GP referral decisions to cardiology

Open Heart

Purpose In a comparator study, designed with assistance from the Food and Drug Administration, a State-of-the-Art (SOTA) ECG device augmented with automated analysis, the comparator, was compared with a breakthrough technology, Cardio-HART (CHART). Methods The referral decision defined by physician reading biosignal-based ECG or CHART report were compared for 550 patients, where its performance is calculated against the ground truth referral decision.