Viz.ai and Medtronic Collaborate to Improve Postacute Stroke Patient Care in the United States
Viz.ai (San Francisco, CA) announced a strategic collaboration with Medtronic (Minneapolis, MN) to improve the coordination of cryptogenic stroke patient care between neurology and cardiology teams. The company’s Viz Connect solution, a software tool that automates the communication across disciplines, including neurology and cardiology, is being offered to stroke care teams in the United States to assist in the treatment of stroke patients who are at risk of atrial fibrillation poststroke and may need additional cardiac monitoring.
According to Viz.ai, Viz Connect has demonstrated an impact on improving patient access to cardiac care after a cryptogenic stroke with an average >50% increase seen with in-patient cardiology follow-up and an average time of <5 minutes from when the notification is sent from neurology to when it is reviewed by a cardiologist. Recent clinical study results indicate that both community hospitals and academic centers require stronger, standardized care pathways between neurology and cardiology to ensure that stroke patients receive guideline-directed therapy.
As summarized in the press release, the DiVERT Stroke clinical study (NCT05306873) showed that only 16% of stroke patients from community hospitals and 34% of patients at academic centers received a cardiology consult. The first results from the DiVERT Stroke clinical study showing that poststroke workflow protocols and cardiac monitoring varied significantly across community hospitals and academic centers were announced by Medtronic after their presentation by David Z. Rose, MD, at the 14th World Stroke Congress in Singapore in October 2022.
The strategic collaboration was discussed in the current press release by Chris Mansi, MD, CEO and Cofounder at Viz.ai, and Stacey Churchwell, Vice President and General Manager, Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Services within the Cardiac Rhythm Management business, which is part of the Cardiovascular Portfolio at Medtronic.
“Through our collaboration with Medtronic, we have the opportunity to bring cardiology and neurology closer together by using software tools that help facilitate stroke patient care,” stated Mansi. “We are confident this collaboration will help more patients get the continuity of care and treatment they need to reduce secondary stroke recurrence. We look forward to helping hospital care teams more easily get patients to the right specialist at the right time.”
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