About this Research Topic
Digital health is defined as "the use of information and communication technologies to support health and health-related fields”. Digital health includes different technological subsets such as advanced computing sciences in ‘big data, genomics, artificial intelligence, mobile health (App, wearable, wireless technology for medical care), and mainly telemedicine. Among the wide range of medical specialties in which telemedicine has been successfully applied, cardiology can be considered one of the most important fields of application. Telecardiology allows access to a real-time assessment (teleconsultation) without the need to travel for both patient and cardiologist and has proved to be useful in the clinical management of patients with true or suspected heart disease in different clinical settings. The rapid spread of Covid-19 around the world has highlighted the need for immediate and accessible health care, particularly in some clinical areas like cardiology. Furthermore, the growing aging of the population which will lead to a greater demand for cardiological services in Western Countries will make health care expenditure less sustainable.
The goal is to explore how the new technologies of digital health can help telecardiology in identifying specific clinical pathways in the management of heart disease. It is obvious that developments and implementations of both telecardiology and digital health have a lot of advantages and bring a great value for both cardiologists and patients, but the main question is how to incorporate them into the existing workflow successfully and what difficulties and challenges may occur. Several questions are still open. For example: how to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare with the help of new technologies? What innovations should healthcare professionals prioritize? How and which mobile health apps will be really useful in the post-pandemic period? In particular, which of the more than 325,000 health apps currently on the market will be able to promote greater patient involvement, better adherence to therapy, a healthy lifestyle, improve communication between doctor and patient, and implementation of health services (saving costs) and increase data available for research?
This Research Topic aims to receive manuscripts focusing on research-oriented real-time monitoring and remote transmission of both physiological and critical medical data, related technologies, procedures, and devices that enable efficient management of patients with life-threatening heart disease such as ischemic heart disease and arrhythmias.
Original Research, Review, Mini Review, Opinion Articles and Consensus Documents are welcome.
The goal is to explore how the new technologies of digital health can help telecardiology in identifying specific clinical pathways in the management of heart disease. It is obvious that developments and implementations of both telecardiology and digital health have a lot of advantages and bring a great value for both cardiologists and patients, but the main question is how to incorporate them into the existing workflow successfully and what difficulties and challenges may occur. Several questions are still open. For example: how to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare with the help of new technologies? What innovations should healthcare professionals prioritize? How and which mobile health apps will be really useful in the post-pandemic period? In particular, which of the more than 325,000 health apps currently on the market will be able to promote greater patient involvement, better adherence to therapy, a healthy lifestyle, improve communication between doctor and patient, and implementation of health services (saving costs) and increase data available for research?
This Research Topic aims to receive manuscripts focusing on research-oriented real-time monitoring and remote transmission of both physiological and critical medical data, related technologies, procedures, and devices that enable efficient management of patients with life-threatening heart disease such as ischemic heart disease and arrhythmias.
Original Research, Review, Mini Review, Opinion Articles and Consensus Documents are welcome.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Remote Consultation, Heart Disease, Telemedicine, Telecardiology, Telehealth, Covid-19, Digital Health
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