06
Jun
2019
18:00
BST
Webinar
Digital Health: New Cardiac Implantable Devices & App Based Solutions to Increase Clinic Efficiency
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Overview
Digital health is an emerging field with wide applications and an increasing visibility to physicians and patients. In this webinar, experts will discuss how digital health is impacting cardiology, how it can help to transform patient management and how new technologies in implantable cardiac devices will support patient engagement and clinic efficiency.
Faculty:
Enrico Caiani
Paul Roberts
Martin R Cowie
This webinar is supported by
Key Learning Objectives
- How digital health is changing cardiology and how to embrace it.
- How digital technology can help transform patient management in cardiology.
- An overview of the latest innovations in cardiac implantable cardiac devices, incorporating Bluetooth communication with smart devices, such as tablets and smartphones.
Target Audience
- Cardiologists/electrophysiologists and heart failure specialists involved in the implantation and/or follow-up of cardiac devices, such as implantable cardiac monitors, pacemakers, ICDs and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices.
- Allied healthcare professionals such as physiologists, hospital technicians or nurses involved in implantable cardiac device therapy.
Faculty Biographies
Enrico Caiani
Prof. Enrico Caiani is Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. He is Past-Chair of the e-Cardiology working group and Vice Chair of the Digital Cardiology Board Committee of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). His main research interests include e-health solutions in cardiology, technology, cardiac image processing and space physiology.
Paul Roberts
Dr. Paul Roberts is a Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist in the University Hospital, Southampton, UK. He is an experienced Interventional Electrophysiologist with particular expertise in device implantation (pacemakers, ICDs and cardiac resynchronization devices) and catheter ablation. Dr. Roberts has been involved in the early development of the Micra™ and started implanting transcatheter pacemakers in the Micra™ IDE study and the Micra™ Post-Approval Registry. He is both a trainer and proctor for Micra™.
Martin R Cowie
Martin Cowie is Professor of Cardiology at King's College London, and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK. Prof Cowie chairs the Clinical Practice Committee of the British Cardiac Society and sits on the UK Department of Health’s Primary Care and Heart Failure Implementation Board.
Prof Cowie's research interests focus on health technology assessment and delivery of efficient and effective care for patients with heart failure, with a focus on diagnostics, drugs, and devices. He has had a longstanding interest in evaluating remote monitoring and other digital technologies in heart failure.
Prof Cowie’s studies and reviews have been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including The Lancet, European Heart Journal, British Medical Journal, Heart and International Journal of Cardiology. He is a member of the editorial boards of Heart, The British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Diseases and Cardiovascular Diabetology.