Editorial commentary: Virtual medicine —A better reality?

The last decade has witnessed an explosion in amount and variety of digital health-related data available to both patient and health care provider, which will undoubtedly have a profound influence on the practice of medicine. Increasingly, information could be obtained from smart phones and other commercial external devices, electronic medical record systems, wireless transmission through implantable, wearable, or stand-alone medical devices, and greater access to patients using video and other telemedicine applications.

Source: Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine - July 3, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Joseph G. Akar, James P. Hummel Source Type: research