Noel Bairey Merz, MD, professor of cardiology and the director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center in the Smidt Heart Institute, will receive the 2023 Master of the ACC Award from the American College of Cardiology in honor of her pioneering contributions to the cardiovascular profession.
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Network Open, point to digital shifts in cardiovascular care amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We were encouraged to learn that access to cardiovascular care was maintained for high-risk and underserved communities during the pandemic, said Joseph Ebinger, MD, director of Clinical Analytics in the Smidt Heart Institute and senior author of the study. This same study, however, identified some differences in care that we need to delve into further to better understand.
The researchers examined data collected from 87,182 pre-COVID in-person visits, 74,498 COVID-era in-person visits, 4,720 COVID-era telehealth video visits and 10,381 COVID-era telephone visits.
Across all categories, patients accessing COVID-era remote visits were more likely to be from racial or ethnic minority groups, have private insurance and have cardiovascular conditions such as hypertension, coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation and heart failure.