National Cardiac Rehab Week: Encouraging Patient Education and Participation
This post was authored by Richard A. Josephson, MS, MD, FACC, member of the ACC Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Section Leadership Council, and Derin Tugal, MD, a fellow in training at Case...
View ArticleUsing Data to Improve Quality and the Consistency of Care – Part 1
This post was authored by John A. Spertus, MD, MPH, FACC, presenter at the 2016 Cardiovascular Summit. The practice of cardiology is immensely challenging. On the one hand, we have more evidence to...
View ArticleUsing Data to Improve Quality and the Consistency of Care – Part 2
This post was authored by John A. Spertus, MD, MPH, FACC, presenter at the 2016 Cardiovascular Summit. Variations in care have been described for decades. For example, the Dartmouth Atlas has...
View ArticleMake Your EHR Work For You
This post was authored by Tyler J. Gluckman, MD, FACC, presenter at the 2016 Cardiovascular Summit. We all know that electronic health record (EHR)/electronic medical record (EMR) systems are...
View ArticleCardiovascular Summit: Disruptive Solutions For the CV Care Team
This post was authored by C. Michael Valentine, MD, FACC, incoming vice president of the ACC and course co-director of the 2016 Cardiovascular Summit. As clinicians, we strive day in and day out to...
View Article‘I am CardioSmart’ Contest Recognizes Inspiring Heart Health Stories
This post was authored by Marth Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, editor-in-chief of CardioSmart.org. This month, CardioSmart announced the winners of its annual “I am CardioSmart” contest, which has been held...
View ArticleIntroducing JACC: Basic to Translational Science
This post was authored by Douglas L. Mann, MD, FACC, editor-in-chief of JACC: Basic to Translational Science. Since the launch of its namesake, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC)...
View ArticleACC’s WIC Section Celebrates Women’s History Month
This post was authored by Sandra Lewis, MD, FACC, chair of ACC’s Women in Cardiology (WIC) Section. This March, ACC’s WIC Section is celebrating the achievements and history of female cardiologists. In...
View ArticleAnd It’s Going, Going, Gone! ACC Knocks It Out of the Park at Big Sky
This article was authored by Sandeep K. Krishnan, MD, a fellow in training (FIT) at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. The ACC has done it again! Another home run for the FIT team! I...
View ArticleHealth IT Innovation Showcased at HIMSS16
This post was authored by Tyler J. Gluckman, MD, FACC, a presenter at HIMSS16. Just weeks after the ACC was in Las Vegas for the 2016 Cardiovascular Summit, thousands of health information technology...
View ArticleA History of Women’s Heart Health
This post was authored by Nanette K. Wenger, MD, MACC, professor at the Emory University School of Medicine, director of the cardiac clinics at Grady Memorial Hospital and a member of ACC’s Women in...
View ArticleHitting the Ground Running: Sports and Exercise on the Move at ACC.16
This post was authored by Jana MH Goldberg, MD, cardiovascular disease fellow at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of ACC’s Sports and Exercise Cardiology Section Leadership...
View ArticleWomen’s History: Imaging, Quality and the Workforce
This post was written by Pamela S. Douglas, MD, MACC, a past president of the ACC and a member of ACC’s Women in Cardiology (WIC) Section. I choose to specialize in cardiology because it combined a...
View ArticleInternational Perspectives at ACC.16
This post was authored by Daniel José Piñeiro, MD, FACC, chair of the ACC Assembly of International Governors. Cardiovascular disease is a global health issue that affects countries and communities...
View ArticleA Sister’s Love Uplifts Hearts
This post was authored by Robert Beekman, III, MD, FACC, chair of ACC’s Adult Congenital and Pediatric Cardiology (ACPC) Section. This year at ACC.16 several congenital heart disease (CHD)-focused...
View ArticleACC.16 FIT Clinical Decision Making: The Importance of Revisiting the History...
This post was authored by Colin Phillips, MD, a fellow in the Division of Cardiovascular Disease at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. As a fellow in training, the opportunity to spend...
View ArticleWelcome to Chicago!
This post was authored by ACC President Kim Allan Williams Sr., MD, FACC, president of the ACC. Over the next three days, the world of cardiology will descend upon my hometown of Chicago for ACC.16!...
View ArticleTaking a Closer Look at Centralized Systems of Care
This post is authored by Richard J. Kovacs, MD, FACC, chair of the ACC’s Clinical Quality Committee. As a result of continued hospital and practice integration, as well as an ongoing evolution to a...
View Article#Cardiology Ontology: Using Hashtags to Improve #CVD Care
This post was authored by R. Jay Widmer, MD, PhD (@DrArgyle); Carolyn M. Larsen, MD (@carolynmarieMN); Robert A. Harrington, MD, FACC (@HeartBobH); T. Jared Bunch, MD (@TJaredBunch); John P. Erwin,...
View ArticleExciting News on TAVR; Tempered by Unanswered Questions
This post was authored by Lars G. Svensson, MBBCH, PhD, FACC, chair of the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart and Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH. There are few procedures...
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