Cardiology pathway

Creating ways for patients to easily receive advice virtually. Consultations can be triaged and queries and prescriptions can be answered remotely.

• Empowering Cambridge patients through digital access to their health information
  
• Health and care videos to provide advice and guidance
  
• Digitally managing preoperative hypertension to avoid surgical cancellations
• Telemonitoring at scale for hypertension in primary care

Early access to diagnostics and advice for primary care, including support for staff with advice, communication tools and image sharing where helpful.

• Remote monitoring of patients with heart failure and hypertension
• Health and care videos to provide advice and guidance
• Digitally managing preoperative hypertension to avoid surgical cancellations
• Telemonitoring at scale for hypertension in primary care

Remote reporting on diagnostics (including AI-enhanced diagnostics), including shared care records and diagnostic networks that support sharing of patient information.

• Remote monitoring of patients with heart failure and hypertension
• Remote ECG monitoring and AI-assisted analysis to improve reporting times and accuracy
  
• Health and care videos to provide advice and guidance
  
• Remote monitoring for people living with heart failure to reduce A&E admissions
• Transforming heart failure diagnosis pathway to improve the patient journey

Streamlined digital pathways, including booking appointments (most are virtual) and messaging of clinical teams managed through portals and remote platforms.

• Patient portal to enable patients to manage their own appointments
• Virtual outpatient clinic for remote follow-ups post-catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
  
• Empowering Cambridge patients through digital access to their health information
• Health and care videos to provide advice and guidance
  
• A messaging app that allow clinicians to communicate securely
• Transforming heart failure diagnosis pathway to improve the patient journey
  

Tests and pre-operative assessments all being carried out virtually and supplemented by patient-reported outcome measures.

• Health and care videos to provide advice and guidance
• Digitally managing preoperative hypertension to avoid surgical cancellations
• A messaging app that allow clinicians to communicate securely
• A booking platform for visiting inpatient wards at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals
• An integrated digital solution for scheduling and delivering cardiovascular procedures in real-time
• Telemonitoring at scale for hypertension in primary care

Ongoing monitoring, including platforms that support long term conditions-monitoring and use of devices at home to monitor vital signs, and use of digital rehabilitation.

• Remote monitoring of patients with heart failure and hypertension
• Online cardiac rehabilitation to support self-management
• Cardiac rehabilitation programme for people who have heart problems
• Health and care videos to provide advice and guidance
  
• Delivering digitally enhanced cardiac rehabilitation during COVID-19 restrictions
• Digitally managing preoperative hypertension to avoid surgical cancellations
• Transforming heart failure diagnosis pathway to improve the patient journey
• Telemonitoring at scale for hypertension in primary care
• A personalised cardiac rehabilitation programme to remotely monitor patients
  

Supported self monitoring, including health and wellbeing overseen by the patient with support from digital tools and easy access to advice when necessary.

• Remote monitoring system to enhance patient care
  
• Empowering Cambridge patients through digital access to their health information
• Health and care videos to provide advice and guidance
• Remote monitoring for people living with heart failure to reduce A&E admissions
• Delivering digitally enhanced cardiac rehabilitation during COVID-19 restrictions
• Digitally managing preoperative hypertension to avoid surgical cancellations
• Transforming heart failure diagnosis pathway to improve the patient journey
• Telemonitoring at scale for hypertension in primary care

Tools to support advance care planning, symptom management and effective psychological support for patients, carers and families.