Overview
- Provides a practical manual for cardiology professionals to understand the implications of healthcare technology on cardiology practice
- Contains pearls and pitfalls via a series of case studies in managing healthcare informatics in the cardiology clinic and hospital settings
- Reveals the core technologies and protocols for modern healthcare information technology, such as mobile health solutions, big data and clinical care, and electronic healthcare records
Part of the book series: Health Informatics (HI)
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About this book
This unique book comprehensively reviews how information technology is changing cardiovascular medical practice. Chapters include a wide range of topics from specific technologies and virtual care education to large system implementation. Extensive illustrative material and specific case studies are included throughout to reinforce key concepts and enable the reader to develop an understanding of how information technology is impacting medical practice. Health equity, medicolegal ethics, and regulatory considerations are also covered.
Healthcare Information Technology for Cardiovascular Medicine: Telemedicine & Digital Health provides a foundation for better understanding how these technologies impact cardiovascular care delivery. Its comprehensive analysis enables healthcare providers and other stakeholders to enhance clinical practice through digital health implementation.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ami Bhatt, MD, FACC, is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director Outpatient Cardiology and TeleCardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She graduated from Harvard College, obtained her doctoral degree from Yale School of Medicine, and trained at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Children's Hospital of Boston, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in internal medicine, pediatrics, adult cardiology, and adult congenital heart disease (ACHD). Since 2013, Dr. Bhatt founded her first program in virtual care in 2013 and since 2016 she has run the MGH Outpatient Cardiology practice and transitioned cardiovascular care delivery at MGH for over 70,000 patient visits to virtual care in 2020.
She is now internationally renowned for her leadership in telemedicine implementation in cardiology, creating culturally relevant personalized virtual cardiovascular care delivery models with hospital administration, advocacy organizations, and digital health companies. Her aim is to develop collaborations and an environment conducive to agile, patient centered care delivery with high quality outcomes while elevating the patient and clinician experience. Dr. Bhatt serves as a medical advisor for digital and telehealth companies from inception, clinical trials and FDA applications to sequential funding rounds. She advocates for policy change and telemedicine legislation with congressional representatives, leads national telemedicine education via the American College of Cardiology and serves on the Greater Boston Board of the American Heart Association . Internationally, she assists countries affected by COVID with an abrupt need to deliver remote care. Her interest in digital health strategy stems from her belief that state of the art, personalized care can be delivered to individuals in the community, empowering patients and creating stronger clinician-patient partnerships for sustainable health outcomes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Healthcare Information Technology for Cardiovascular Medicine
Book Subtitle: Telemedicine & Digital Health
Editors: Ami B. Bhatt
Series Title: Health Informatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81030-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81029-0Published: 05 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81032-0Published: 06 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81030-6Published: 04 October 2021
Series ISSN: 1431-1917
Series E-ISSN: 2197-3741
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 145
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Health Informatics