For physicians and other healthcare professionals, there are numerous benefits that the Zio™ family of devices and iRhythm clinical service provide. These benefits are derived primarily from iRhythm’s focus on delivering a simple, intuitive, and efficient experience for both the patient and healthcare provider while also ensuring that the healthcare provider is given high-quality, appropriate, and complete cardiac rhythm data from which to develop a treatment plan. Key benefits:
- The elegance of the design of the Zio™ family of devices ensures that those receiving monitoring continue to feel like people and less like patients. To do this we have created the Z-tape which allows the Zio™ Continuous or Event Card devices to be used discreetly under clothing, thereby not allowing others to know that cardiac rhythm monitoring is being performed.
- The power of the single-use model of the Zio™ family of devices increases the efficiency of healthcare practices since healthcare professionals involved in cardiac rhythm monitoring, such as certified cardiac technicians, no longer need to focus on the time intensive processes of generating reports and tracking and cleaning devices and so are available to participate in other important patient-focused activities.
- The appropriateness of the extended recording period of the Zio™ family of devices means that only one test per patient is likely required to make a diagnosis since sporadic arrhythmia occurrences and/or occasional symptoms will likely recur during the monitoring period of up to 48 hours for the Zio™ Continuous Card or up to 30 days for the Zio™ Event Card.
- The 24/7 support of iRhythm’s staff of highly-trained and certified technicians and “always-live” reporting website ensures complete continuity of care since all healthcare professionals and patients have full-time access to having questions answered and having all reports be fully available for review.