While the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) adopted a Standard of Care in 2005 requiring ECG overreads, many, if not most, groups fail to meet this standard. More importantly, patient care suffers most, as ECGs can sit without overreads for days and even weeks on end. When no qualified overread is done in a timely manner, many catastrophic things can occur.

For cardiologists and electrocardiologists, as well as physicians, the ECG is the leading, non-invasive cardiac diagnostic test. Such a powerful tool is useless, however, if key indicators are missed, misdiagnosed, or go unread in a timely manner.

This dilemma is compounded as hospital groups add outlying units, cardiology practices grow beyond one city, and studies in pharma extend into hundreds and thousands of cohorts. The ability to quickly and accurately provide ECG overreads in disparate places in a timely manner has, until now, been a real problem.

This is why The WaveWatch Group was founded: better patient care, faster, more reliably.