part of the Informa PLC divisionThis website is operated by a company or companies owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them.Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG.Registered in England and Wales.Number 8860726.The active and continuous practice of telemedicine has taken shape and is rapidly gaining strength in the national medical scenario.It gained strength, mainly, after the Ministry of Health signed, in June this year, an ordinance that regulates Telehealth with the objective of guaranteeing more of the population to SUS services.Basically, through technology, the idea is to bring health professionals closer to patients who are in more remote regions and thus ensure quality care.With the incorporation of this “telecare” in a definitive and well-structured way, TeleCardiology emerges with great protagonism, since we have cardiovascular diseases with the main chronic health conditions and, in addition, they are the ones that kill the most - according to the World Health Organization. Health (WHO), about 17.5 million people per year die as a result of these diseases. Therefore, to monitor more patients with these conditions and reduce the risks and aggravating factors of diseases, companies focused on technology for the health area come developing, more and more, new tools and devices.Related: Plural Care and ResMed team up to bring 24/7 telemonitoring to patients in home careCardiology has always been at the forefront of medicine.The first telemedicine movements, for example, took place through the Tele-Electrocardiogram (ECG) in 1994, when it was possible to obtain the first ECG reports remotely.Today, 28 years later, there are countless solutions and technologies that appear to monitor patients, even remotely.Among the examples that we can cite are the 24-hour Holter and a MAPA (ambulatory blood pressure monitoring) that allows a specialist doctor to provide reports regardless of the region in which he is, just be connected to the internet.What, then, about the so-called Smart Watches?A watch that, in addition to measuring the heartbeat, can perform an electrocardiographic derivation and, based on an artificial intelligence, identify the presence of cardiac arrhythmias and even damage current in an acute myocardial infarction.Recently, Instituto do Coração at USP announced a partnership with a major technology company to provide a smart watch to monitor patients undergoing cardiac surgery at the institution.This watch is not only capable of detecting changes in heart rate, but also measuring the wearer's blood pressure, oxygen saturation and sleep pattern.You may be wondering how the tool is used for teleservice.Simple: all this data goes directly to a central in the hospital's clouds, and thus, the telecardiology team can be activated for quick remote contact with the patient and outline the next steps and necessary conducts.This is just the beginning of a universe that has a lot to grow and work in the service of the population in general.There are already several projects in progress for devices that are in the patient's possession, but that send, remotely to the doctor, more complete data of ECG, blood pressure, continuous tracings such as a Holter and even devices that simulate a stethoscope, so the doctor can auscultate the patient with his own help.We see, therefore, that the future is now, with new technologies being released and improved at a speed never seen before.We increasingly want more robust technologies to be incorporated into the teaching portfolio at Universities, always seeking to better balance face-to-face and virtual training through telemedicine.Leonardo Jorge Cordeiro de Paula is a cardiologist, academic director of the Brazilian School of Medicine (EBRAMED).He is a specialist in Health Management and Education, and is currently a clinical cardiologist at Incor – Instituto do Coração.More about information text formats