{"id":6095,"date":"2011-01-21T14:14:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T19:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:38","slug":"heart-rhythm-society-advising-doj-in-investigation-of-icd-implants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/01\/21\/heart-rhythm-society-advising-doj-in-investigation-of-icd-implants\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Rhythm Society Advising DOJ in Investigation of ICD Implants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) has informed its members that it is \u201caware of an ongoing U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) civil investigation of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) implants\u201d and that it has \u201cagreed to assist in an advisory role to lend expertise concerning proper guidelines for clinical decision making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HRS explained that its role involved \u201creviewing information that does not include either identifiable patient or facility level data. Rather, we are providing insight on the field of electrophysiology to the DOJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At this point it appears there will not be more information from HRS: \u201cBecause this is an ongoing investigation, HRS Staff or Leadership is not available for further comment. HRS will communicate additional information to its membership when permitted to do so by the DOJ.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) has informed its members that it is \u201caware of an ongoing U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) civil investigation of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) implants\u201d and that it has \u201cagreed to assist in an advisory role to lend expertise concerning proper guidelines for clinical decision making.\u201d HRS explained that its role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[448],"class_list":["post-6095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrophysiology","tag-icds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}