SciPoll 409: Heart Health: Life Saving Benefits of Wearable Technologies
Is there a need to improve physician education for how to incorporate smart heart monitoring devices into their clinical practice?
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(109 Answers, 5 Skips)
Answer Explanations
- Yesuser-933346
More info on wearable and IoMT would be helpful
- Yesuser-834630
The technology is booming recently and in order to properly train patients, physicians need training on the limitations and benefits of specific technologies.
- Yesuser-165049
Doctors should be aware of the benefits
- Yesuser-646901
especially the perception that smart watches are only "gadgets"
- Yesuser-104260
need to monitor at doctor level the findings
- Yesuser-346054
Receiving direct notification from patients
- Yesuser-377267
Managemnet of the monitoring and responses to it is crucial
- Yesuser-547683
Healthcare professionals (physicians and otherwise) should be alert to all available tools to proceed with a correct prompt diagnosis. I do think that most physicians in Cardiology are aware of such gadgets. The same may not be true in Neurology and Internal Medicine, yet physicians in these specialities do often treat patients with stroke in whom such tools may be of diagnostic interest.
- Yesuser-698057
lack of information will hinder the wide use of such devices and the credible information should start from the relevant physicians
- user-441980
But doing research, studying papers
- Yesuser-672647
Knowledge on wearable smart heart monitoring devices is very essential to save lives.
- Yesuser-604552
As this is not part of official protocols they need to be educated about the related bemefits for their patients.
- Yesuser-508906
The main issue of Western world is too much food in combination with insufficient activity.
If a smart monitoring is helpfull can each person decide during training. - Yesuser-600998
Yes. A single (manual) observation of vitals combined with an ECG conducted in an controlled setting is one thing but watch wearing all day everyday will have practical issues causing data 'blips' that should not automatically cause concern.
- Yesuser-40527
docs consider smart watch as part of diagnosis, suggest to wear, helps patients in upcoming life threatening risks, saves patient life.
- Yesuser-664651
Don’t forget about other primary care providers nurse practitioner and pharmacists too
- Yesuser-37526
Not very many Electrophysiologists know what to do with the data (how to get it, store it)
- Yesuser-125195
Again for the reasons I noted earlier I believe that such devices offer great benefit to evaluate cardio fitness, to help develop exercise, dietary and other programs, and importantly if worn regularly they can establish baselines and be used to establish trends that should be of great benefit to physicians should they use them
- Yesuser-164793
please also add nurse practitioners, and physician assistants
- Yesuser-38414
Always necessary to update professionals .
- Yesuser-320876
There is a need to educate and remind physicians how to best serve patients by "DO NO HARM"--current medical practices is financial and control-driven.
- Yesuser-622747
our patients need a huge of education before discharge. it can replace the cardiac rehabilitation
- Yesuser-622574
But, first the technologies should be improved by new algorithms.
- Yesuser-200863
There need to have scientific studies with strict scrutiny and rigger to support their use and then train physicians to incorporate these technologies into their practice.
- Yesuser-863919
Very few know both the medicine and the technology in sufficient depth to know how to deploy the tech.
- Yesuser-737405
Yes, education and evidence of benefits
- Yesuser-394368
AI is the future.
- Nouser-487852
Not necessarily, so people don't get panicked for non-threatening situations
- Yesuser-907789
Practical knowledge of the indications for these devices are important for their prescription by the care provider
- Yesuser-198903
We should start teaching MD and nursing student on how to deal with this kind of devices and how to deal with patients dealing with these devices