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Cardiac Consult: Expanding Cardiac Care to Pediatric Patients in Distant Communities to Assist General Pediatricians with the Management of New Murmurs in an Effort to Cut Costs and Promote Efficiency*

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Introduction: Health care issues make daily headlines, and there has grown a demand for lower cost, more accessible care. Some of the most promising answers to this problem have been… Click to show full abstract

Introduction: Health care issues make daily headlines, and there has grown a demand for lower cost, more accessible care. Some of the most promising answers to this problem have been addressed through telemedicine. Cardiac consult is a smart phone app that connects general pediatricians in distant communities with pediatric cardiologists at tertiary centers. The secondary goal is to reduce health care spending by avoiding frivolous testing for findings that could …

Keywords: general pediatricians; distant communities; consult expanding; cardiac consult; care

Journal Title: Pediatrics
Year Published: 2018

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