LifeWatch Services, Inc. unveiled its advanced atrial fibrillation telemonitoring/telemedicine service offering at the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado in May. The AF TeleClinic is bundled telemedicine service that includes automatic scheduling of patient follow up monitoring, and, apparently, some amazing reporting formats.

Monitoring is one thing, but its the reporting of that monitoring and the display of the data that will be key to improving the care of the patient – how the clinician interprets the data, how frequent or infrequent alerts are, how clear artifact is from real, underlying arrhythmias, etc.

Billed as “first in the industry”, the AF TeleClinic will be followed by a series of disease-specific monitoring TeleClinics(TM) that LifeWatch is developing. Great idea, but an idea that many hospital systems and businesses have had simultaneously and are in various stages of developing.

(And judging by all of the “TM”s in most of the articles I read about telemedicine and telemonitoring, it looks like it’s going to be a trademark-fest. I first read about it in a Forbes press release.)

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