Three Health Tech Innovators Push Boundaries To Build A Brighter Future Of Cardiovascular Care

As integer wellness technologies summation momentum, investigation is uncovering that much group are unfastened to artificial intelligence (AI) supported wellness interventions erstwhile those are backed by objective expertise and rooted successful evidence-based guidelines. To harness this opportunity, nan American Heart Association, a relentless unit changing nan early of wellness for everyone everywhere, launched its inaugural CarePlan Challenge this twelvemonth to thrust invention and grow entree to guideline-based cardiovascular care.

The American Heart Association's Center for Health Technology & Innovation invited developers, wellness exertion innovators and AI specialists to create integer solutions that toggle shape preventive care, amended illness guidance and heighten diligent engagement. Participants were challenged to create integer prototypes integrating nan Association's science-based CarePlans - personalized attraction pathways designed to negociate and amended post-acute and chronic wellness conditions including those for bosom failure, hypertension and cardiac rehab - alongside devices specified as Life's Essential 8™, a group of 8 habits designed to amended patients' bosom wellness and wide well-being, and the PREVENT™ Risk Calculator, a instrumentality utilized by clinicians to estimate a patient's consequence of processing bosom disease, changeable aliases bosom nonaccomplishment complete nan adjacent 20 aliases 30 years.

Applicants from astir nan world received exertion programming interface (API) entree to nan CarePlans and different integer tools, enabling them to build and taxable prototypes that showcase integration of American Heart Association subject wrong a integer wellness solution.

Submissions were judged based connected nan pursuing criteria:

• Innovation & creativity: Uniqueness of attack and imaginative usage of American Heart Association contented and APIs
• Technical implementation: Quality of code, effective API usage and performance
• User acquisition & design: Interface intuitiveness, accessibility and engagement
• Clinical effect & relevance: Potential to amended outcomes and alignment pinch American Heart Association guidelines

The selected solutions include:

• ConneQT – Guided Wellness Programs are mobile solutions utilizing CarePlans and Life's Essential 8 to nexus regular tasks, biometrics from nan CONNEQT Pulse and personalized goals from nan PREVENT calculator to build heart-healthy habits, springiness clinicians much visibility into patients' wide wellness and thrust measurable cardiovascular outcomes.
• Porter Health – a web-based, cross-platform instrumentality that pulls diligent information to present one-click PREVENT and cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic wellness (CKM) consequence assessments and an expert-vetted, ample connection model-assisted CarePlan - tailored based connected diligent demographics, actionable for patients and clinicians and fresh for desktop and mobile use.
• OneVillage – a women-focused virtual cardio-primary attraction level that turns CarePlans and PREVENT-guided consequence into an 80-day personalized pathway. This solution combines expert visits, cardiac rehab and supportive services, specified arsenic nutrition, beingness therapy, accent and doulas, pinch regular acquisition and search to grow entree and amended outcomes crossed divers communities.

These innovators are pushing nan boundaries to build a brighter early of cardiovascular care. Their prototypes aimed astatine utilizing exertion to move subject into action show important committedness successful making evidence-based attraction much personal, accessible and impactful."

Seth Martin, M.D., M.H.S., FAHA, FACC, FASPC, American Heart Association volunteer, professor of medicine, section of cardiology astatine Johns Hopkins Hospital and co-founder of Corrie Health

The CarePlan Challenge was hosted by nan Center for Health Technology & Innovation. Entries were evaluated by a sheet of master judges, comprised of leaders successful integer health, objective investigation and implementation science. Judges were selected for their heavy acquisition successful applying exertion to amended diligent outcomes and standard invention responsibly. The sheet of judges includes:

• Azizi Seixas, Ph.D., subordinate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences astatine nan University of Miami
• Tatyana Kanzeveli, founder and main executive serviceman of Open Health Network
• Seth Martin, M.D., M.H.S., FAHA, FACC, FASPC, professor of medicine successful nan section of cardiology astatine Johns Hopkins Hospital and co-founder of Corrie Health
• Erin Michos, M.D., M.H.S., professor of medicine successful nan section of cardiology astatine Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

The situation champions will return nan shape successful nan Health Innovation Pavilion astatine nan American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2025 in New Orleans to showcase their prototypes earlier an master sheet of judges and unrecorded assemblage for further feedback connected their ideas. Their presentations will return spot connected Sunday, November 8, astatine 3:15 p.m. CT, celebrating breakthrough ideas that bring science, exertion and invention together to beforehand cardiovascular care.