Duane Davis, MD, chief physician executive for the Institutes of AdventHealth Central Florida division in Orlando, discussed why it's important to assess more than direct clinical outcomes of a cardiology patient during a recent episode of the Becker's Healthcare cardiology podcast.
Here is an excerpt from the podcast. Click here to download the full episode.
Editor's note: This response was lightly edited for length and clarity.
Question: Do you see heart care evolving much over the next three to five years?
Dr. Duane Davis: I would say yes, a lot of it is iterative. It is connecting the dots of creating better access and being able to be truly consumer-centric. We in cardiovascular medicine have become addicted to appropriate modeling of what happens to individuals who undergo a variety of procedures. We look at living and dying, and we look at readmissions. … But the reality is we don't really look at the outcomes from a consumer-centric approach. So they have X therapy for a disease state. How do they feel six months, a year, 18 months after? What is their quality of life? Are they able to return to doing the things that they value most? And that's an interesting pivot on what we have classically looked at within the cardiovascular community. So those are going to be important.
I would also say that we will probably be able to apply therapies more broadly for those people who have cardiovascular disease and be more effective in the delivery of that care. That won't be as revolutionary as a lot of things that have happened in the last two decades. But I do think that they will have an impact in the populations that we provide care for.