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Breakthrough healthcare technologies in the COVID-19 era: a unique opportunity for cardiovascular practitioners and
Raffaele Nudi1,2, Marco Campagna3, Alessio Parma3
1Service of Hybrid Cardio Imaging, Madonna della Fiducia Clinic, Rome, Italy.
Insights
Smartcare technologies offer solutions for COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease management. These advanced information technologies can reduce mortality, morbidity, and resource use, reshaping future healthcare delivery.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Technology
- Infectious Disease Management
- Cardiovascular Medicine
Background:
- The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted global healthcare systems, including cardiovascular care.
- Reduced hospital admissions for conditions like ST-elevation myocardial infarction during the pandemic led to adverse outcomes.
- There is a critical need to adapt healthcare practices using advanced technologies to address pandemic-related challenges.
Purpose of the Study:
- To synthesize the potential role of breakthrough healthcare technologies in managing COVID-19 and cardiovascular diseases.
- To identify smartcare approaches applicable during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Main Methods:
- A comprehensive search of biomedical databases, websites, and social media platforms was conducted.
- Information on smartcare approaches relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic was retrieved and analyzed.
Main Results:
- Several promising healthcare technologies were identified, including data and model sharing, preprint archiving, social media, and telemedicine.
- Applications like smartphone apps, robotics, big data analysis, machine learning, and deep learning show potential.
- These technologies aim to optimize prevention, diagnosis, tracing, risk-stratification, treatment, and rehabilitation for COVID-19 and cardiovascular patients.
Conclusions:
- Smartcare technologies are crucial for immediate COVID-19 and cardiovascular care needs.
- Advancements in smartcare are poised to significantly reshape long-term cardiovascular practice and healthcare delivery.
- The integration of these technologies offers substantial benefits for managing both current and future health challenges.
Introduction:
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by symptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, has wreaked havoc globally, challenging the healthcare, economical, technological and social status quo of developing but also developed countries. For instance, the COVID-19 scare has reduced timely hospital admissions for ST-elevation myocardial infarction in Europe and the USA, causing unnecessary deaths and disabilities. While the emergency is still ongoing, enough efforts have been put to study and tackle this condition such that a comprehensive perspective and synthesis on the potential role of breakthrough healthcare technologies is possible. Indeed, current state-of-the-art information technologies can provide a unique opportunity to adapt and adjust to the current healthcare needs associated with COVID-19, either directly or indirectly, and in particular those of cardiovascular patients and practitioners.
Evidence Acquisition:
We searched several biomedical databases, websites and social media, including PubMed, Medscape, and Twitter, for smartcare approaches suitable for application in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Evidence Synthesis:
We retrieved details on several promising avenues for present and future healthcare technologies, capable of substantially reduce the mortality, morbidity, and resource use burden of COVID-19 as well as that of cardiovascular disease. In particular, we have found data supporting the importance of data sharing, model sharing, preprint archiving, social media, medical case sharing, distance learning and continuous medical education, smartphone apps, telemedicine, robotics, big data analysis, machine learning, and deep learning, with the ultimate goal of optimization of individual prevention, diagnosis, tracing, risk-stratification, treatment and rehabilitation.
Conclusions:
We are confident that refinement and command of smartcare technologies will prove extremely beneficial in the short-term, but also dramatically reshape cardiovascular practice and healthcare delivery in the long-term future, for COVID-19 as well as other diseases.
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