Cardiac Imaging
January 13, 2025
AI-CCTA Beats SPECT, Again January 13, 2025
A recent study out of UCLA seemed to add to the body of evidence supporting AI-assisted CCTA as an alternative to SPECT for diagnosing obstructive coronary artery disease, although holes in the study suggest that CCTA AI has more to prove To determine if AI-CCTA could hold its own, researchers analyzed CCTA images from 175 […]
Artificial Intelligence
January 9, 2025
AI-ECG’s 2025 Kickoff January 9, 2025
The buzz around artificial intelligence’s impact on cardiology keeps growing louder, and that’s proving to be particularly true in the AI-ECG segment, with 2025 already off to a strong start from ECG startups and researchers alike. One pertinent example is AccurKardia’s recent FDA breakthrough designation for its ECG-based, AI-powered AK+ Guard hyperkalemia detection software. Tackling […]
Controversies
January 6, 2025
Cardiologists Busted for Overbilling Nationwide January 6, 2025
Adding to a relentless trend of Medicare schemes, 16 cardiology practices agreed to pay more than $17.7M to resolve allegations that they overbilled for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals and violated the False Claims Act. The DOJ accused these practices of reporting “inflated acquisition costs” to Medicare for materials needed to perform cardiovascular imaging. The three largest settlements […]
