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Use of mobile diagnostics and digital clinical trials in cardiology

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Mobile diagnostics and point-of-care tests can improve patient outcomes by allowing remote monitoring during routine clinical care and in digital clinical trials.

There is enormous demand for healthcare services worldwide, in part fueled by aging societies in high-income countries and population growth in low-income countries. This coincides with breakthrough medical research findings that need to be implemented into clinical routines.

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Fig. 1: A future ecosystem of digital clinical trials in cardiology.

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  2. Health Campus Goettingen, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

    Sinje Gehr, Nandha Kumar Balasubramaniam & Christoph Russmann

  3. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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Gehr, S., Balasubramaniam, N.K. & Russmann, C. Use of mobile diagnostics and digital clinical trials in cardiology. Nat Med 29, 781–784 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02263-1

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