Key result
Digital health technologies enhance arrhythmia care but require deep changes to existing clinical workflows.
Why the study?
With the growing use of novel technologies, a summary of the clinical use of digital health technology in arrhythmia care, along with its opportunities and challenges, was needed.
Digital health technologies offer significant opportunities across the spectrum of arrhythmia care, though successful integration requires deep changes to existing clinical workflows and responsibilities.
Demands workflow redesign to realize digital health benefits in arrhythmia care; leaves open best practices for scalable adoption.
INTRODUCTION: Digital health is a broad term that includes telecommunication technologies to collect, share and manipulate health information to improve patient health and health care services. With the growing use of wearables, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other novel technologies, digital health is particularly relevant to the field of cardiac arrhythmias, with roles pertinent to education, prevention, diagnosis, management, prognosis, and surveillance. AREAS COVERED: This review summarizes information on the clinical use of digital health technology in arrhythmia care and discusses its opportunities and challenges. EXPERT OPINION: Digital health has begun to play an essential role in arrhythmia care regarding diagnostics, long-term monitoring, patient education and shared decision making, management, medication adherence, and research. Despite remarkable advances, integrating digital health technologies into healthcare faces challenges, including patient usability, privacy, system interoperability, physician liability, analysis and incorporation of the huge amount of real-time information from wearables, and reimbursement. Successful implementation of digital health technologies requires clear objectives and deep changes to existing workflows and responsibilities.
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Tchapmi et al. (2023) conducted a review in Cardiac arrhythmias. Digital health technology was evaluated. Digital health technologies play an essential role in arrhythmia care diagnostics and management, though successful implementation requires deep changes to existing workflows and responsibilities.
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