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Cardiology orbit solutions

Your plan of care in the patient's hands, every day between visits

Guided digital support tailored to each condition, procedure, and protocol, carried from diagnosis through rehab and lifelong management. Engagement is tracked at every step, so patients understand how and why to stay on track and your team knows who needs a nudge.

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The whole service line, from prevention and rehab through the cath lab, the operating room, and lifelong management.

A trusted digital guide your patients keep, from decision through recovery.

Your instructions and your best guidance, delivered when each one actually matters. Alongside the folder at discharge and the follow-up call, an orbit adds a consumer-grade digital mentor: engaging video, email, and text outreach that keeps patients informed, reassured, and on track between visits.

Built to your protocols before launch. Nothing added to your team's day.

One orbit, issued once, working for three audiences at the same time.
For the patient
They know what to do
A clear understanding of their diagnosis, procedure, and who will be caring for them
Your prep, clearance, and day-of instructions, on the day they apply
Which symptoms mean call us, and which mean go to the ED
The same guide works for whoever drives them home
For your team
Nothing added to the day
Ordered from the workflow you already run, no new FTEs
Fewer calls asking what the discharge sheet already said
Your brand and your protocols, not a generic app
We build and maintain the content, including updates
For the program
You can finally see it
Who opened their orbit and who never did, by patient
Symptom check-ins routed back before the next visit
Engagement and completion by cohort and by site
Optional: validated measures scored automatically
How to begin
Start with one, add the rest
Most cardiology programs start with procedure support or rehab. All four run as one guide the patient keeps.
Procedure support. Bypass, valve, ablation, device implant, cath lab.
Cardiac rehab. Getting referred patients to start, and to keep coming.
Heart failure. Daily weights, fluid and sodium limits, titration.
Prevention and risk. Screening and referral before they are a patient.
How it deploys
Issued from the workflow you already run
From the CareOrbit app, a scheduled flat file from any EHR, a patient list, a QR code, or a text message.
No new FTEs. Nothing added to anyone's day.
White-label. Your brand, your voice.
Live in a quarter. From kickoff to first patient.
The understanding gap

A lifetime condition, managed in twenty minutes a month.

Coronary disease, heart failure, and hypertension are managed for life, but your contact is a handful of appointments a year. Medications, weights, sodium, activity, and every warning sign are handled at home, by a patient working from memory. That is the understanding gap, and the figures below are what it costs. As visit time shrinks, extending your team's presence into those weeks matters more, not less.

What the gap costs
None of these are decided in your clinic. Each one turns on whether a patient understood the plan, kept taking the medication, recognized a warning sign, or showed up for rehab, in the weeks when no one was there to tell them.
Up to 3%
Medicare inpatient payment at risk
The HRRP reduction hospitals face for excess readmissions, including heart failure, acute MI, and CABG.
CMS
1 in 5
Readmitted within 30 days
National 30-day readmission after a heart failure hospitalization is commonly reported near 20 to 23%.
Published national analyses
About half
Stop taking their cardiac medications
Discontinuation and poor adherence to chronic cardiovascular therapy is widely reported near 50% within the first year.
Published adherence literature
About 1 in 4
Eligible patients who start rehab
Cardiac rehab is one of the best-evidenced interventions in cardiology. Most eligible patients never begin it.
Published Medicare analyses

Industry rates from CMS, CDC, and published analyses, not CareOrbit outcomes. Rates vary substantially by program and payer mix; bring your own figures and we will work from those.

Measurable ROI

How an orbit provides value.

Every orbit is built based on your target clinical and financial outcomes including revenue to protect, costs to lower, opportunities to expand and staff resources to support.

Targeted Outcomes
What an orbit is built and tracked against from the first patient forward.
01
Fewer 30-day readmissions
The costliest between-visit failure in cardiology, and the one CMS penalizes directly.
02
Higher cardiac rehab enrollment
A referral that never becomes an enrollment is billed to nobody and helps no one.
03
Higher rehab completion
Completion is where the mortality benefit lives, and where most programs leak patients.
04
Better medication adherence
Cardiac regimens only work when they are taken, and nobody sees the bottle between visits.
05
Fewer avoidable ED visits
A managed symptom at home instead of an unplanned presentation on a weekend.
06
Fewer inbound calls per episode
Every repeat call is nursing time spent re-explaining what was already covered.
07
Earlier symptom recognition
A patient who calls about three pounds of weight gain costs a phone call, not an admission.
08
A visible program differentiator
A branded cardiac experience is something few competing programs can show a referring physician.

Cardiology care journeys currently supported.

Support your cardiology service line with a Cardiology Department Bundle which gives you 9 procedure and condition orbit versions for patients and families, plus a template for the rest, supporting the specifics of procedures like these:

01
Heart Health
Versions: general patient + at-risk + senior + community. Procedure orbits evolve here.
02
Cardiac rehabilitation
Versions: newly prescribed + full journey
03
Coronary artery bypass surgery
Versions: general + off-pump / OPCAB
04
Heart valve repair or replacement
05
Aneurysm repair
06
Coronary angioplasty and stenting
07
Implantable pacemaker
08
Heart transplant
09
Minimally invasive heart surgery
Clinical evidence

The pilot behind the numbers.

A nine-month cardiac rehab pilot measured real enrollment gains, building on the platform's controlled trial in oncology.

Pilot with resultsPritikin Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation
Patients who opened their orbit started rehab at more than twice the rate
Over nine months at a leading Midwest health system, 187 patients referred to Pritikin ICR were invited to a cardiac rehab orbit. Of the patients who activated theirs, 52% went on to start the program; of those who never activated, 24% did. An observational pilot, not a randomized trial, since patients chose whether to activate.
Read the pilot results →
52%
of patients who activated their orbit started ICR
24%
of patients who never activated started ICR
187
patients invited to an orbit over nine months
2,704
ICR sessions completed across both cohorts
Voices from the pathway
What it sounds like when recovery is guided
From live oncology deployments. Cardiology orbits are built on the same platform.
Patients see it as incredibly easy to understand and use. We use it to open up dialogues so much faster. Families just run with it!
Chief of Section, Surgical Oncology
It's seen as incredibly easy to understand and use. They (patients and families) just run with it.
Nurse Navigator, Siteman Cancer Center Surgical Department

20 minutes. Your cardiology pain points, our platform.

No demo script, no obligation. We get introduced, hear which cardiology moments are costing your team the most, and give you a brief look at the platform. Then we decide together whether it is worth a second conversation.

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Get the Cardiology info sheet by email.