Can coronary CT angiography accurately evaluate bioresorbable vascular scaffolds? Experts disagree

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Coronary CT angiography (CTA) is diagnostically accurate in detecting scaffold luminal obstruction, according to a team of international researchers, signaling it may become the preferred method for evaluating patients treated with bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS)—but not all experts agree.

Op-ed: EHRs, AI are making medicine, imaging impersonal—but physicians are to blame

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Courtesy of The New York Times Magazine. 

In a recent editorial published in The New York Times Magazine, Abraham Verghese, MD, a professor of internal medicine at Stanford, explained that the popularity of electronic health records (EHRs) and the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine may be overriding physicians' own clinical judgement more than helping to inform it.