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. 2022 Jan 22:15:11795476211069194.
doi: 10.1177/11795476211069194. eCollection 2022.

Performance and Integration of Smartphone Wireless ECG Monitoring into the Enterprise Electronic Health Record: First Clinical Experience

Geoffrey W Cho  1   2 , Shone O Almeida  1   3 , Eli S Gang  1   4 , Yaron Elad  4   5 , Ray Duncan  5 , Matthew J Budoff  1   3 , Ronald P Karlsberg  1   4
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Performance and Integration of Smartphone Wireless ECG Monitoring into the Enterprise Electronic Health Record: First Clinical Experience

Geoffrey W Cho et al. Clin Med Insights Case Rep. .

Abstract

Introduction: Patient initiated, remote cardiac monitoring has proved to be a significant advance in the diagnosis and management of arrhythmias. Further improvements in ease of use and access to results will further improve health outcomes and cost-effectiveness. Here we describe a proof-of-concept evaluation to assess the feasibility of successfully implementing a cloud-based management system using KardiaPro (KP) for remote electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring to interface into EPIC, an enterprise electronic health record (EHR) system.

Methods: The KP management system was embedded using hypertext markup language (HTML) code directly into the EHR. Encrypted credentials and patient data were bundled with an application programming interface key allowing linkage of remote monitoring from patients' smartphones. During the time of implementation, a total of 322 patients and 32 179 ECGs were recorded.

Results: The KP-EHR interface provided full functionality, allowing detection, interpretation and documentation of atrial fibrillation (AF), flutter events, ventricular tachycardia, and complete heart block. Our study focused on KP's detection of AF, and 16.7% of tracings were classified as probable AF with only 2.3% of tracings not analyzed by the KP algorithm because of tracings that were too noisy or truncated. Enhanced management was facilitated with clinical information immediately accessible. Blinded physician ECG review validated the KP proprietary algorithm interpretation and ECGs.

Conclusions: Direct integration of KP into EHR was successful and practical. It allows for historical, point of care and immediate retrieval of remote ambulatory monitoring data and documentation into the electronic health record. KP EHR integration warrants further study as it has the potential to improve cost-effectiveness and clinical diagnostic value, leading to improvements in delivery of patient care.

Keywords: AliveCor; Kardia; KardiaMobile; KardiaPro; Remote monitoring; atrial fibrillation; electrocardiogram; smartphone EKG; ventricular tachycardia; wearables.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Figures

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Figure 1.
Interface of KardioPro integrated with EPIC electronic health record.
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Case example—atrial fibrillation diagnosis.
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Case example—atrial fibrillation management.
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