Virtual Care’s Impact on Access and Outcomes
Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation is one of the most well-supported interventions for people recovering from heart and lung conditions, yet 80-90% of eligible patients never enroll, as they are blocked by distance, transportation, scheduling, and limited capacity at in-person facilities. Join Carda Health, Dean Ornish and Julie Stebbins, executive director of outpatient cardiology at Wellstar, for a candid conversation on how virtual delivery closes this gap.
Clinical evidence, delivery model, and health system impact, from the people closest to each.
Julie is the Director of Outpatient Cardiology Services at WellStar Health System, where she has dedicated 25 years to advancing cardiovascular care across 11 hospitals in Georgia. Her clinical operations background spans Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehab, Preventive Cardiology, and Cardiac Diagnostics. She holds a BS from Furman University and an MS in Cardiac Rehabilitation and Biomechanics from Wake Forest University.
Dean Ornish, MD, known as “the father of lifestyle medicine,” is founder and president of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF and UCSD. His randomized trials were the first to show that lifestyle change alone can often begin to reverse chronic diseases including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, early-stage prostate cancer, and early-stage Alzheimer’s, work that led Medicare to create a new reimbursement benefit for reversing heart disease. He is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of seven books.
Haley Uher, BS, MS, ACSM-CEP, EIM, is Carda Health’s Head of Clinical Exercise Physiology, a certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist with 11+ years of experience supporting patients across a wide range of cardiac conditions.
Kyle is Head of Sales at Carda Health, where he partners with health plans and health systems to improve patient outcomes and reduce avoidable healthcare spending. For the past seven years, he has worked in health technology, building partnerships with payers and enterprise health organizations to bring new care delivery models to the populations they serve.Kyle lives in Sarasota, Florida. Outside of work, he promotes health and wellness in his community, with a focus on youth sports and athletics.
