If you implant internal cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) and you care about how well patients understand their devices, you will be disappointed in the results of a study released today in JAMA Internal ...

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DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Health Language, Inc. (HLI), the global leader in healthcare terminology management, announced an expansion of its relationship with ExitCare, LLC, an enterprise-wide ...

"Appropriately selected patients with NICM have the potential to benefit from primary prevention ICD therapy…Besides consideration of ICD placement, attention to guideline-directed medical therapy and ...

ICD-10 implementation will challenge healthcare organizations to rethink their current information flow. It represents significant changes for every aspect of healthcare — affecting systems, ...

Mirela Habibović, M.Sc.; Matthew M. Burg, Ph.D.; Susanne S. Pedersen, Ph.D. ATP = ; CBT = cognitive behavioral rehabilitation; CCR = comprehensive cardiac ...

When physicians who haven’t received ICD-10 training hear the upcoming conversion mentioned, you can see fear in their faces, says Joanna Lucas, ICD-10 committee chair and senior administrative ...

Prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy did not reduce mortality in patients with a prior myocardial infarction, persistent moderate left ventricular systolic dysfunction and ...

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association has concluded that the transition to ICD-10 coding has a negative effect on patient safety reporting because of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Elderly patients diagnosed with congestive heart failure who receive implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death live longer than ...