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Patient-Centered Care in a Team-Based Environment 26 Aug 2013 | 08:50 pm
This post was authored by Suzanne Hughes, RN, MSN, clinical education project director for the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, and a member of the ACC’s CV Team Section. The focus on pat...
Being CardioSmart: A Patient’s Story 23 Aug 2013 | 01:36 am
This post was authored by “I am CardioSmart” patient contest winner Deborah Flaherty-Kizer. I was born blue, weighing in at less than four pounds and with some type of serious heart “problem.” Growin...
Patient Engagement and Opportunities for Collaboration 21 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
Hippocrates said: “It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.” The trick, however, is getting to know the patient and engaging them ...
The Future of ACC’s Lifelong Learning Program 15 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
Watch Harlan Krumholz, MD, FACC, editor-in-chief of ACC’s Lifelong Learning Portfolio discuss how ACC is transforming CV education and the future of lifelong learning: Click here for more informatio...
How Might We Alter The Path? 6 Aug 2013 | 07:49 pm
This post was authored by Thomas J. Lewandowski, MD, FACC, governor of the ACC Wisconsin Chapter. Like it or not, the way in which society determines the value medical specialists provide has permanen...
Pioneer ACOs, Physician Ownership and Quality 5 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
The recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) report on Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) performance demonstrated what is being widely and predictably described as “mixed” resul...
Bridging the Gaps in the RUC Process 1 Aug 2013 | 08:49 pm
The work of the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (also known as RUC) has recently been the subject of some scrutiny in the press. Some se...
Addressing the Controversial Echo Studies 31 Jul 2013 | 08:37 pm
This post was authored by Neil J. Weissman, MD, FASE, FACC, president-elect of the American Society of Echocardiography. Last week, JAMA Internal Medicine published two articles which have gotten subs...
ACC: An Empowered Organization 25 Jul 2013 | 10:43 pm
This post was authored by Shal Jacobovitz, CEO of the ACC. One of my goals of CEO of the ACC is to ensure that the ACC is providing services to its members in the most efficient, effective way possibl...
Is Health Information Technology a Friend or Foe? 24 Jul 2013 | 11:13 pm
This post was authored by John Windle MD, FACC, professor and chief of cardiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and a member of the ACC’s Clinical Quality Committee. My New Year’s Reso...
