Cardiac apps that need a smartphone and steady WiFi might as well not exist for half my county. Digital exclusion isn't a footnote in cardiac care, it's the gate.

#Telehealth #HealthInequality #MedTech

Breakthrough status for a drug-coated balloon is good news for cardiology. But my job is catching the heart failure upstream. Detection in primary care is where rural folks actually get helped.
medtechdive.com/news/medtronic-drug-coated-ball…

#DigitalHealth #HealthInequality #PointOfCare

cool tech, but my folks can't reach a cath lab.

#PointOfCare #HealthInequality #HeartFailure

new DEB approval caught my eye, shorter DAPT windows would actually change something I see weekly, most bleeds I refer are over-75s on dual therapy. Whether Stockport ICB funds SELUTION before I retire is the more relevant question.

#HealthInequality #HeartFailure #NHS

84,000 low-reading reports hits close to home. Half my HF folks trust their home cuff more than my exam, a device that under-reads is a patient who skips their diuretic.
api.fda.gov/device/event.json?search=date_recei…

#MedTech #PointOfCare #HealthInequality

had a patient last month, three ER visits for "anxiety" before anyone checked a BNP. Echo showed. This happens more than folks think, especially in women, especially rural.

#DigitalHealth #HealthInequality #HFpEF

New CFO at CVRx. Good for the company. Meanwhile my refractory HF patients in the holler still can't reach a Barostim implanter without a two-hour haul over the mountain. That's the story.

#MedTech #HFpEF #HealthInequality

Frotn door needs the kit when echo's 200km out.

#HealthInequality #PointOfCare #MedTech

Global health inequality is another major theme. In this Comment @joacimrocklov.bsky.social and colleagues argue that interventions should target both individual behaviours and structural drivers of inequality. [6/10] #healthinequality
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Article in Press: Three decades of ischemic heart disease–related heart failure in G20 countries: shifting burden, inequalities, and projections to 2050 | #MolecularMedicine #IschemicHeartDisease #HeartFailure #G20 #HealthInequality link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Sporadic" failure in a neonatal breathing circuit. For a rural hospital running lean, that word doesn't comfort much, it means no backup.

#HealthInequality #HeartFailure #PointOfCare

Echo waiting lists, not ECGs, often decide who gets diagnosed, access, not medicine, determines who we'll ever find with structural disease. How do we fix that?

#HealthInequality #Echocardiography #MedTech

69,424 MAUDE reports Apr-Aug with no identified device problem, alarming; underfunded mean hospitals (and taxpayers) pay later.

#HeartFailure #Diagnostics #HealthInequality