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As health-care professionals, we are focused on preparing for and implementing effective management strategies for the onslaught of COVID-19 patients. This pandemic represents an unprecedented operational challenge for our health-care systems and leadership. As cardiovascular specialists, we are also concerned for an unexpected but significant potential effect of this pandemic — a future second wave […]

The coronavirus pandemic that has erupted worldwide has pushed telehealth to the forefront. It's unlikely remote medicine will go away, even after the current crisis abates. Demand for telehealth systems has boomed in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, setting the stage for telemedicine to finally achieve at least some of its long-promised benefits. And

An electrocardiogram (also referred to as an ECG or EKG) is a test that analyzes the electrical activity of your heart. The test, which takes approximately ten minutes to perform, involves a technician attaching twelve leads to your chest and then getting a 12-line printout that reflects your heart’s activity during a 10-second window. So,

More than ever, healthcare professionals are seeing how data can make a difference between life and death. Barcelona Hospital Clínic’s CIO David Vidal reproduced the words of an infectious diseases specialist working in his centre: “We are saving people’s lives thanks to data”. Due to the high number of patients needing hospitalisation, hotels and sports

Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women over age 25 in the United States, regardless of race or ethnicity. The death rate from cardiovascular diseases has decreased among men but continues to increase in women. Unfortunately, only 1 in 3 women identify the cardiovascular disease as the greatest health problem facing women today.

Human error is inevitable in medicine. Case in point: A study revealed that more than 20% of patients with serious conditions are initially misdiagnosed by their primary-care doctors. This can result in weeks, or years, of misguided treatment and disease advancement. It’s a mistake that can prove not just costly but occasionally fatal. Last year, 1

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) still remains the main cause of morbidity and mortality and consequently, early diagnosis is of paramount importance. Health care expenditures are overwhelming where costs are skyrocketing, predominantly because of the escalating costs of care of advanced disease.  Congestive heart failure afflicts more than 5 million people and consumes more than $30 billion

It seems like anyone can talk about the COVID-19 pandemic. We have to agree it’s worth talking about (and hard not to discuss). Still, most conversations tend to revolve only around fear of getting sick, sheltering in place, overcrowded hospitals, closings of all sorts, and lack of toilet paper. We´d like to propose a new

As the highly contagious novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, continues to explode with new infections in new locations every day, it is crucial for those who are at risk, elderly, chronically ill, to continue to receive care when needed with their primary care practitioner as other diseases are not slowing down, they remain and patients must receive

  If you or someone you love has had a stroke or is living with a heart condition, the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) may be especially worrying.   What do we know about the virus? This virus is still very new. There are a lot of things we don’t know — such as how