Beyond Alerts: Building the Continuous Cardiovascular Care Platform - Powered by 91Life-Beyond Alerts: Building the Continuous Cardiovascular Care Platform

Beyond Alerts: Building the Continuous Cardiovascular Care Platform - Powered by 91Life

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At HRX 2026, a roundtable of electrophysiologists, a nurse practitioner, and a technologist discussed the future of remote monitoring, which has expanded far beyond device surveillance to managing AFib, heart failure, hypertension, obesity, sleep apnea, and wearable data. Speakers described current systems as largely centralized but highly siloed: implantable device data is often reviewed by specialized teams, while consumer wearable data is frequently scanned into PDFs and poorly integrated into the chart.<br /><br />Major themes included interoperability, patient ownership of data, privacy, legal liability, and reimbursement. Participants agreed that patients should own their data, but there were concerns about how to securely share it and how to prevent overload for clinicians. Several speakers emphasized the need for “pre-analysis” or AI-driven triage to make large data streams actionable, while preserving the physician as the central decision-maker.<br /><br />Reimbursement remains a major barrier, especially for reviewing non-device wearable data. Possible models discussed included monthly subscriptions, diagnosis-based payment, and quality-based incentives. The group also stressed that remote monitoring must work for fragile and less tech-savvy patients through simple, automatic, “set it and forget it” systems.<br /><br />Overall, the panel saw a future built on collaboration, standardized protocols, and patient-centered, interoperable data systems.

Keywords

remote monitoring

electrophysiology

wearable data

interoperability

patient data ownership

AI triage

reimbursement

heart failure