PaceMate, the remote cardiac monitoring platform trusted by leading healthcare providers, announced the appointment of Sean Shoffstall as Head of AI, Innovation, and Data Strategy. Shoffstall joins PaceMate after holding senior roles with Beginly Health, Welby Health and Auditdata, where he played an integral part in the launch of the first HIPAA-compliant AI-generated audiogram analysis tool in the industry. In his new role at PaceMate, he will drive the company’s AI ambitions forward with a focus on transforming data-driven insights into automatic actions, beginning with the transformation of manual workflows that slow down clinics and take up time that could be better spent on patients.
For over a decade, PaceMate has centralised discreet data from a wide range of cardiac monitoring devices, EHR systems and clinics’ internal operations, offering clinicians a holistic view of everything they need to deliver the best possible patient care–and actionable insights to do it far more efficiently. For PaceMate, this work has resulted in one of the most robust cardiac datasets on the planet. It’s upon this data-rich backdrop that the company will now set out to introduce several AI and machine learning applications that will take these operational efficiencies from streamlined to scale. Doing so will require FDA approval and HIPAA compliance, which have so far hindered the introduction of AI solutions to the remote cardiac monitoring space.
To naturally progress the evolution of PaceMate’s platform, Shoffstall will drive forward an AI roadmap with an initial focus on three core areas: 1) surfacing the insights that matter most, with the necessary urgency, 2) optimising clinics’ operational efficiency and care, and 3) fueling medical and industry research.
Since its founding, PaceMate’s innovation roadmap has been shaped by the clinicians and care teams who directly rely on it. Shoffstall seeks to maintain this approach by partnering directly with some of the more than 1,000 clinics that already trust PaceMate to streamline their remote cardiac monitoring workflows. He will lean on his decades of experience in healthcare technology to innovate responsibly with ethical AI practices and transparency at the core. Of utmost priority is ensuring that new AI applications handle the data analysis and pattern recognition, enabling healthcare providers to spend more time doing what they do best: caring for patients. This includes enhancing the everyday workflows and the clinical demands of cardiac care, rather than focusing on futuristic use cases that don’t meet clinics’ real-world needs.
