A team of physicians at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University has developed a new automated tool that shows promise fo the development of a new clinical tool to improve detection of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)—a life-threatening form of heart failure related to high blood pressure in the lung circulation. Details of the use of the virtual echocardiography screening tool (VEST) are published in the American Heart Journal .

“Our EMR-based VEST tool proved highly accurate in identifying individuals likely to have PAH,” said Anjali Vaidya, MD, lead author of the study and co-director of the Advanced Pulmonary Hypertension, Right Heart Failure & CTEPH Program at Temple University Hospital.

The Temple team integrated VEST directly into the electronic medical r

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