AliveCor is entering into a partnership with GE Healthcare. AliveKor’s FDA-cleared, AI-enabled KardiaMobile 6L EKG device is placed on a person’s left knee to perform hospital-grade EKG.
GE Healthcare Two major announcements were made this week at the Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, indicating the company aims to help providers access deeper, real-time patient data to improve clinical decision-making and care.
First, on Tuesday, the Chicago-based company Announce It is developing an artificial intelligence-enabled digital health platform. According to the company, the Edison Digital Health Platform will aggregate data from multiple sources and vendors, support clinical applications and provide a holistic view of each patient.
Then on Wednesday, GE Healthcare Announce Partnership with Mountain View, CA living heart The ECG readings it takes on the medical device company’s personal ECG device will be transmitted directly to GE Healthcare’s MUSE cardiac management system.
This will allow physicians at heart hospitals to use the system to quickly assess patients with cardiac arrhythmias, such as atrial fibrillation. So, for patients using the device remotely, doctors can use this information to determine if an immediate visit is needed. The readings will also be used to help make care decisions during the visit.
Ashutosh Banerjee, general manager of diagnostic cardiology at GE Healthcare, explained in an interview that every hospital has something called a heart station, where a cardiologist needs to examine every incoming EKG, confirm it and then act accordingly. HIMSS22.
“The problem today is that the workflow is broken,” he said.
He points out that in the case of ECGs taken at home with devices such as AliveCor, the information often does not reach the heart station.
Instead, the current status quo is that patients use AliveCor’s Kardia device to extract EKG results on their mobile phones or email PDF files for reading during office visits. But this data isn’t integrated into the clinical workflow — it’s not in the patient’s EMR — so doctors can’t easily compare the EKG to the results of previous EKGs or other diagnostic tools and tests.
“The beauty of what’s going to happen now with this partnership is that these EKGs will go directly to their doctors in the hospital,” said Priya Abani., CEO of AliveCor, who discussed the partnership with Banerjee at the GE Healthcare booth.
Terms of the partnership between GE Healthcare and AliveCor were not disclosed. However, if Muse is already used by a hospital system, AliveCor will be sold as a subscription to that hospital system.
The personal device will be prescribed for some patients with heart disease. When a patient records an ECG using AliveCor’s device, the data is automatically transmitted directly to MUSE from AliveCor’s cloud server.
“Longitudinal data collection is very important for the patient journey,” Abani said.
This includes being able to compare past and present readings for patients to better understand their condition and the best way to handle their care right now. And, crucially, according to the companies, the partnership allows for this data to be communicated in a meaningful way and easily interpreted by physicians.
“It was effective, well-planned and timely,” Abani said.
This is also a new type of advancement in secure patient data sharing that the Edison platform will support.
GE Healthcare said the platform will be a cost-effective way to accelerate digital innovation, help providers increase revenue, improve care and provide healthcare providers with a better experience.
According to the company, the Edison Digital Health Platform is designed to accelerate application integration by connecting devices and other data sources.
“The future is very clear. It will be aided by technology, direct patient engagement and built-in intelligence,” said Paritos Daval, Senior Vice President of GE Healthcare and General Manager of Edison Platforms, also at HIMSS.
Electronic medical records will remain the system of record, he said. But the aim is to provide an alternative to siloed patient data that doctors don’t have access to, while sharing apps and other tools to improve care.
“We’re seeing different systems (come together) with platforms like Edison,” Dhawale said.
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