Healthcare IT News June 30, 2022
A cardiologist and tech chief medical officer discusses how technology can help fill the gaps in specialty care.
Today there are just 33,368 cardiologists in the U.S. They can’t possibly care for 30.3 million adults with heart disease in the U.S. right now.
On a related note: About 647,000 people die every year in the U.S. from heart-related issues.
And it’s not just cardiologists. The U.S. is lacking most medical specialists today. That’s where technology can step in – to help scale and magnify the impact of specialists to manage chronic disease.
We interviewed Dr. Ashul Govil, a practicing cardiologist and chief medical officer at Story Health, a technology company that aims to expand the reach of specialists in the...