As we integrate technology and virtual care in every aspect of our patient's heart health, we must also protect the integrity of cardiac care," added Jeff Wessler, MD, Cardiologist, CEO, and Founder of Heartbeat Health. "The world is quickly moving away from how medicine was practiced 30 years ago. "Wearable health monitoring devices have evolved rapidly over the last five to 10 years and are now widely available COVID-19 is a catalyst to push remote patient monitoring into the virtual care workflow." "To truly transform cardiovascular care and improve heart health, we must incorporate data, remote patient monitoring and outcome tracking in an easy to use format both the patient and the physician can use to inform shared decision-making," said John Rumsfeld, MD, PhD, FACC, ACC Chief Science and Quality Officer and Chief Innovation Officer. While telehealth in its simplest form is an exchange between patients and clinicians using audiovisual means however, true virtual care should include diagnostics, management plans, and therapeutics-all aspects of clinical management without the requirement of physical care. Cardiology is different than other care practices in that it requires frequent in-person evaluations and testing not every specialty or disease process is like this. ![]() clinical practices rapidly adopted telehealth as a primary way of providing outpatient care, dramatically reducing or eliminating office presence. ![]() NEW YORK, JNewswise - /PRNewswire/ - The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Heartbeat Health, the first telemedicine and virtual care platform built by cardiologists for cardiologists, are joining forces to transform telehealth into comprehensive virtual care by ensuring cardiology practices around the world can incorporate clinical data into virtual patient communications to make real-time, informed clinical care decisions.
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