I founded Hearts at Home in 2022 with the goal of improving access to care for those with cardiovascular disease. Through my experience I have come to realize opportunities for improvement in our healthcare system:

1. Time constraints mean patients do not get to spend as much time as they would like with their doctors.

2. Access to transportation is a significant barrier to care for many of the sickest patients.

3. Many patients in short-term rehabilitation or long-term care settings often have complex medical illness and are often lost to follow-up.

These problems, unfortunately, come as no surprise. Many people continue to fall through the cracks of our current medical practice model. Social stressors, disability, and no access to transportation can make it very difficult to keep regular follow-up with a provider. There are people I have cared for who haven’t seen their primary doctor since the start of COVID. And it can take months to get a 15 minute appointment.

Hearts at Home addresses these problems by making cardiology care accessible, visiting patients at home, and performing basic cardiac testing onsite. While the idea is not cutting-edge (this is how medicine used to be practiced for generations), the newest portable medical technology is! EKG machines are the size of tablets — blood can be drawn and tested within minutes — even high-resolution echocardiography machines are small enough to fit in a briefcase.

The U.S. medical system is adapting to technological breakthroughs, an aging population, COVID…. But along with the strain experienced by our current healthcare system comes an opportunity to fundamentally change how we deliver medical care. In this way Hearts at Home strives to be a leader in personalized, accessible, quality, and affordable healthcare.