For Researchers and Partners

A Research-Ready Digital Health Platform

HeartPath by Heart Health HQ was designed from the ground up as both a patient support tool and a research instrument. Every patient interaction — daily check-ins, symptom logs, module engagement, care team messages — generates longitudinal data that can support funded research on cardiac surgery recovery, patient engagement, and digital health intervention design.

Research Potential

Longitudinal Data Collection

Navigator daily check-ins collect structured patient-reported outcomes across pain, mood, activity, sleep, and medication adherence — passively, at scale, without requiring clinic visits or phone follow-up.

Engagement Metrics

Module completion rates, chat query patterns, milestone achievement, and symptom log entries provide objective measures of patient engagement with a digital health intervention — publishable outcomes in their own right.

Three-Sided Intervention Design

The simultaneous enrollment of patients, caregivers, and care teams into a single platform enables novel research designs examining how information sharing and communication across all three groups affects recovery outcomes.

NIH Alignment

HeartPath is positioned for NHLBI SBIR/STTR funding as a digital health intervention targeting CABG recovery outcomes. The platform's data architecture supports feasibility and usability study designs appropriate for R21 and SBIR Phase I applications.

Collaborate With Us

We are actively seeking academic medical center partners for feasibility studies, usability research, and co-investigator relationships on NIH grant applications.

If you are a cardiologist, cardiac surgeon, or health services researcher interested in digital health intervention research for cardiac surgery populations, we would like to hear from you.