Wearable ECG and Remote Heart Monitors have revolutionised cardiovascular diagnostics, enabling continuous rhythm evaluation, early detection of abnormalities, and real-time clinical decision-making outside traditional healthcare settings. As remote health technologies expand and digital cardiology becomes integral to modern practice, clinicians frequently seek advanced updates on Wearable ECG and Remote Heart Monitors when attending digital-health and prevention programmes at a cardiology conference. Growing interest in ambulatory rhythm-monitoring technologies aligns with the rapid rise of AI-enabled interpretation, cloud-based analysis and personalised monitoring pathways that reshape patient care.

This session opens with an overview of the evolution of wearable devices—from Holter monitors to patch-based ECG systems, smartwatches, biosensors and multi-modality wearables. Participants learn how device form, sensor accuracy, sampling frequency, noise filtering and adaptive algorithms influence diagnostic yield. The session also reviews clinical indications including palpitations, syncope, suspected arrhythmias, cryptogenic stroke evaluation, AF detection, medication monitoring and post-ablation follow-up.

A major focus is placed on data interpretation and signal-quality assessment. Attendees explore the nuances of distinguishing artefacts from arrhythmias, identifying premature beats, quantifying AF burden, analysing heart-rate variability and assessing long-term rhythm trends. The session includes approaches for integrating wearable-derived data into clinical workflows and electronic health systems.

Participants examine device-selection considerations such as monitoring duration, waterproofing, battery life, patient comfort, adhesive tolerance, data transmission capability and compatibility with mobile platforms. The session also highlights regulatory standards, cybersecurity, patient privacy, consent procedures and ethical responsibilities associated with remote monitoring.

Management strategies address how clinicians should respond to device alerts, structure follow-up pathways and integrate findings into personalised care plans. The session also explores the role of wearables in preventive cardiology, chronic-disease monitoring, sports cardiology, paediatric arrhythmia assessment, high-risk screening and telehealth programmes.

Future directions include AI-augmented arrhythmia prediction, machine-learning–based noise filtering, advanced biometric integration, continuous multi-lead wearables, and population-level rhythm-surveillance networks. Participants gain a clear understanding of emerging trends that will shape remote cardiac monitoring over the next decade.