Future of Cardiology Will Be Defined by Digital, Mobile Advances

The future of cardiovascular care will be transformed by advances in artificial intelligence, digital health technology and mobile devices as a means to prevent and treat heart disease, according to several articles published June 4, 2018 in a Journal of the American College of Cardiology Focus Seminar on the Future Technology of Cardiovascular Care. As the type and breadth of data available to cardiologists and the cardiovascular care team continues to grow more sophisticated, physicians are increasingly being asked to provide more rapid and personalized interpretations of data to their patients. One solution to providing this level of personalized medicine efficiently is artificial intelligence, also known as machine learning. In the review article Artificial Intelligence in Cardiology,[1] researchers analyze select applications of artificial intelligence in cardiology and identify how the specialty could incorporate more artificial intelligence in the future to enhance the capabilities and experiences of clinicians and patients. "(Artificial intelligence) has clear potential to enhance every stage of patient care -- from research and discovery, to diagnosis, to selection of therapy," said Joel Dudley, Ph.D., senior author of the review and director of the Next Generation Healthcare Institute at Mount Sinai. "A key next step to incorporating artificial intelligence into cardiology is to align available data and technologies with clinical and business use.