Beginning Jan. 1, 2027, impacted health plans must exchange prior authorization data through standardized application programming interfaces (APIs). The mandate reaches Medicare Advantage organizations, state Medicaid and CHIP fee-for-service programs, managed care plans and Qualified Health Plan issuers on the…
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Forty-six hospitals earned an “A+” rating for cardiac care from Money Magazine. The ranking, published April 30, used the Denniston Data measure of quality care to identify high-performing physicians and providers based on their level of experience in cardiac procedures.…
The American Heart Association recognized three heart leaders The AHA handed out honors for heart physicians and leaders at its Heart Association’s National Volunteer Awards ceremony June 23. The Gold Heart Award is the association’s highest volunteer honor. Here are…
Transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (ATTR) is rare, progressive, and still undiagnosed.[1] At a featured session during Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, a panel of cardiology and pharmacy leaders outlined both the scale of the problem and a practical playbook for health system administrators…
Echocardiography has long been considered a workhorse of cardiac imaging, and now it has become the natural training ground for artificial intelligence, Akhil Narang, MD, a cardiologist and director of the Echocardiography Lab at Northwestern Medicine’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute in…
When clinicians don’t trust clinical decision-support tools, they don’t just ignore them. They spend extra time verifying and correcting AI-generated recommendations undermining productivity and compromising the very quality-of-care gains these tools are meant to deliver. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting,…
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The American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology and the World Heart Federation jointly released the “Second Universal Definition of Heart Failure” on June 29, updating the clinical framework used to identify and classify…
Real-time medication price transparency is no longer a someday ambition. As of 2025, 75 percent of hospitals had integrated real-time prescription benefit information for at least some payers, CMS has required Medicare Part D plans to support these tools since…
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Scarcity has always shaped healthcare. “Triage” assumes there isn’t enough to treat everyone at the level they need. “Population health” often means concentrating limited resources on the highest-risk sliver of a panel. But a new generation of clinically safe AI voice…
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Most AI implementations don’t fail because of the technology. They fail because organizations focus on deployment instead of behavior change. Clinicians don’t resist innovation — they resist disruption that doesn’t clearly improve patient care or make their day easier. In…
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