title: Digital monitoring and care: Virtual medicine.
abstract: Remote digital health monitoring technologies can be synergistically organized to create a virtual medical system providing more continuous care centered on the patient rather than the bricks and mortar medical complex. Utilization of the digitalized patient health monitoring can facilitate diagnosis, treatment plans, physician-patient interaction, and accelerate the progress of medical research, education, and training. The field of cardiac electrophysiology has been an early adopter of this shift in care and serves as a paradigm applicable to all areas of medicine. The overall impact of this remote virtual care model on the quality of medical care and patient experience requires greater study, as well as vigilance as to the differences between technology and care in order to preserve the intangible and immeasurable factors that bring humanity to the art and science of medicine.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine/USC Center for Body Computing, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
authors.forename: Jerold S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Shinbane
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine/USC Center for Body Computing, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Electronic address: saxon@usc.edu.
authors.forename: Leslie A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Saxon
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D019091:Critical Pathways; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D063731:Mobile Applications; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011379:Prognosis; D058998:Remote Sensing Technology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D000068997:Smartphone; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Body computing; Computer modeling; Computer simulation; Digital; Home monitoring; Remote monitoring; Three-dimensional printing; Virtual; Wireless