JACC November, 2017
A Report of the American College of Cardiology Task Force on Health Policy Statements and Systems of Care.
Executive Summary
Healthcare transformation is the product of a shared vision between a broad range of stakeholders to establish the future of care delivery and to develop new patient-centered, evidence-driven models in which value is rewarded over volume. Important within this transformation are newly developed and rapidly evolving technology-based innovations. These include: digital health with wearable, smartphone, and sensor-based technologies; big data that comprises the aggregation of large quantities of structured and unstructured health information and sophisticated analyses with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing techniques; and precision-health approaches to identify individual-level risk and the determinants of wellness and pathogenicity....