Interactive and dynamic ECG analysis. Is it just an IDEA or a clinically relevant approach?

• Published in: Journal of electrocardiology Vol. 29 Suppl; pp. 21 - 25
• Main Authors: Fayn, J, Conti, L, Fareh, S, Maison-Blanche, P, Nony, P, Rubel, P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 1996
• Subjects: Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; Electrocardiography, Ambulatory - methods; Electronic Data Processing - methods; Humans; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
• ISSN: 0022-0736
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0736(96)80005-7

The idea that it is possible to increase the overall electrocardiographic (ECG) diagnostic performance is developed in this paper, provided that different programs or methods and various data sources are combined and that the dynamicity of the patients' record is considered. This dynamicity consists of the following three dimensions: beat-to-beat changes within continuous recordings, changes between serial records, and clinical events. Data integration should be time- or event-related, and multisources data should interact. Interactive and dynamic ECG analysis (IDEA), however, can only be achieved if powerful clinical workstations are developed that access the right information, when and where needed, a challenge that the IDEA workstation intends to accomplish.