VIDEO: 4 predictions on key cardiac technologies for the coming years
Ami Bhatt, MD, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) chief innovation officer, and an adult congenital heart disease cardiologist at Mass General Hospital in Boston, discusses four of the top areas of innovation she sees coming that will likely become paradigm shifts in cardiology in the next decade.
Some of these areas of clinical transformation are included in ACC's innovation program, where the college is collaborating with vendors to help make happen include:
• Wearables and home monitoring technologies will play an increasingly important role to get a more complete picture of a patient's health, rather than widely separated snapshots of their health during office visits.
• Better use of data from the patient's electronic health record (EHR). This will include gathering additional social determinant information that impact patients so clinicians have a better understanding of how to care for their patients. This can include food insecurity, if a patient lives in a food desert, or if there are issues with them getting medications because of distances to pharmacies or the inability to drive.
• Making clinical trials more accessible. Clinical studies are changing in that the trials are being taken to the patients to make it easier for collecting data and getting patient compliance. This includes use of remote monitoring technologies and mobile phone apps, rather than requiring patients to come into a clinic or the hospital.
• Expanding educational opportunities with virtual reality. Bhatt said using new technologies like virtual reality and online sources to reach clinicians in more remote areas.
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