Readiness for coronary artery disease, tools, management, applications, assessments: a review

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) tools are software applications or digital tools designed to aid in the management, diagnosis, and treatment of CAD disease. These tools serve various purposes such as providing imaging and diagnostic capabilities, assessing the risk of CAD development or cardiac events, offering decision support to healthcare professionals, facilitating cardiac rehabilitation, enabling remote monitoring of patients, and promoting medication adherence. By leveraging these tools, healthcare providers can enhance accuracy, optimize treatment decisions, improve patient engagement, and achieve better overall management of CAD. However, there are many of important insights on a readiness model for CAD management apps which need to be studied and highlighted. Therefore, this paper aims to review and evaluate the readiness model of mobile apps designed for managing CAD illness. Furthermore, the paper provides many significant insights and the key aspects of CAD readiness that need to be considered. These aspects include clinical validity, user experience, data security and privacy, integration with clinical workflow, evidence of efficacy, technical considerations, and regulatory compliance. By assessing these factors, healthcare professionals and app developers can ensure that CAD management apps are effective, user-friendly, and aligned with established medical guidelines. In addition, this paper highlights challenges and key issues for CAD readiness using mobile apps. Finally, this paper presents several directions and recommendations that can be considered in future works.