Analysis and interpretation of the electrocardiogram by the computer

The marriage between computers and electrocardiography (ECG) dates back to the 1960s. Despite its enormous achievements, I am not sure if half a century later it can be considered a very successful marriage from the standpoint of everyday clinical electrocardiography. Numerous deep concepts based on mathematical computerised ECG analysis were developed (e.g. autonomic indices such as heart rate variability/turbulence and deceleration capacity, morphological ECG wave analysis, signal-averaged electrocardiography, beat-to-beat amplitude and morphology variability, etc.) but they all have almost zero impact on everyday ECG-based clinical decision making (the only tentative exclusion is probably signal-averaged electrocardiography).
Source: International Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research