Cardiovascular Business November 4, 2019
Remote monitoring and high-tech health management solutions have dominated cardiology headlines for the better part of the past year, touted for their accessibility and preventive benefits. But that vision of remote monitoring as the future of CV care might be a skewed representation of our current reality.
At MedAxiom’s fall CV Transforum in Dana Point, Calif., this October, John Rumsfeld, MD, PhD, chief innovation officer for the American College of Cardiology, talked digital transformation and weighed in on the feasibility of innovations like remote monitoring, AI and virtual care. And he has a message for cardiologists when it comes to those tech-driven interventions: slow down.
“We’re putting our whole innovation effort, or a major part of it, into remote monitoring,”...