DOTmed October 24, 2022
Cardiac diseases are increasing at an alarming rate globally. Over 454,000 hospitalizations occur annually because of a primary diagnosis of Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), the most common abnormal cardiac rhythm worldwide. Diagnosing and managing this disease is a significant responsibility and burden for healthcare providers, and AFib can be devastating to an individual patient’s health and quality of life. Undiagnosed cases of AFib can lead to complications like disabling stroke, eventual heart failure or even sudden cardiac death.
Prescribing wearable ECG medical technology has become an increasingly popular approach to assist physicians and their patients in diagnosis of symptomatic cardiac arrhythmias or for periodic follow-up. How ECG data is shuttled between caregivers and analyzed, however, has a surprising number of manual...