AliveCor has announced that the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has included the company’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered electrocardiogram (ECG) technology in the 2025 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) final rule, assigning it to Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) 5733. This approval enables hospital outpatient settings to receive a Medicare payment rate of US$59.40 when […]
BACKGROUND: Changes in the phenotype and genotype in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are thought to involve the myocardium as well as extracardiac tissues. Here, we describe…
BACKGROUND: Transcatheter heart valve (THV) underexpansion after transcatheter aortic valve replacement may be associated with worse outcomes. THV expansion can be assessed fluoroscopically using a…
BACKGROUND: Intravascular imaging (IVI) is widely recognized to improve outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However, IVI is underutilized and is not yet established as…
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BACKGROUND: Despite fractional flow reserve (FFR)–guided deferral of revascularization, recurrent events in patients with diabetes or after myocardial infarction remain common. This study aimed to…
Florida-based startup Lonestar Data Holdings plans to launch the first Moon-based data center dubbed the “Freedom Data Center.” The compact but fully operational information hub…
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) commonly co-exist. Outcomes of people living with both conditions are poor in terms of symptom burden,…
Where do we start? Roxana Mehran hears from Noel Bairey Merz and Stefan Blankenberg.
