Service delivery
What has been implemented and delivered: assessments, diagnostics, facilities and workforce training.
Evidence and impact
What we have delivered. What we are learning. What changes for patients.
HeartLINK+ evaluates the complete cardiovascular-care pathway—from first access and diagnostic quality to interpretation, referral completion and follow-up.
Read the evidence in context
Different evidence answers different questions.
Operational performance
How reliably the pathway functions: quality, turnaround, completion and patient drop-off.
Internal validation
Performance in datasets or analyses supported by HeartLINK+; distinct from independent evaluation.
Independent evaluation
External academic or scientific assessment through prospectively designed studies and independent analysis.
Service volume demonstrates delivery experience. It does not, by itself, establish improved patient outcomes or independent clinical effectiveness.
Delivery experience in Ghana
A cardiovascular pathway put into practice.
Service delivery · Through 30 August 2026
9,000+Cardiovascular diagnostic assessments
5,500+AI-enabled stethoscope assessments
1,850+ECGs
1,400+Echocardiograms
120+Health workers trained
Source: Cumulative program activity in Ghana reported by HeartLINK+, through 30 August 2026. A patient may receive more than one diagnostic service; these totals are not unique patient counts or independently validated patient outcomes.
Delivery and diagnostic experienceWhat remains to be established
What we know—and what we still need to learn.
Current experience
Cardiovascular assessments and diagnostics delivered across facilities, frontline workforce training, internal triage validation and high test completion among people who reached the hub.
Evidence still needed
Independent external validation, prospective clinical utility, improved referral completion, long-term engagement, cost-effectiveness and cardiovascular outcomes.
Explore in detail
Three views of the pathway.
Delivery & diagnostic experience
Service activity, study context and the measures needed to understand clinical utility.
Explore deliveryH-TRIAGE™ & INSIGHT
What has been tested internally, and the questions remaining for independent evaluation.
Explore validationThe connection-to-care gap
Where patients leave the pathway, and how implementation learning can change delivery.
Explore implementation learningThe evidence-development pathway
From internal validation to independent evidence.
Explore the evaluation stages
Delivery evidence
Completed services, workforce training and operating experience.
Internal validation
H-TRIAGE™ performance, diagnostic yield and implementation learning.
Prospective clinical utility
Appropriate evaluation, management change, completion and closure.
Independent evaluation
External academic analysis and prospectively designed studies.
Multi-country validation
Performance across populations, facility types and health systems.
Patient outcomes
Treatment, risk-factor control, clinical events and sustained engagement.
This is the evaluation pathway, not a claim that every stage has been completed.
Research portfolioOne implementation platform.
One implementation platform.
Multiple evidence questions.
View the research portfolio
| Program | Research focus |
|---|---|
| LISTEN | AI-enabled auscultation, cardiovascular findings and triage |
| INSIGHT | Workforce-enabled echocardiography, quality and learning curves |
| I-HEART | Prospective evaluation of appropriate testing and linkage within 14 days |
| VALIDATE | Cross-country performance and generalizability |
| PRIME-CM | Pharmacy-based access, CKM assessment and hub-model comparison |
HeartLINK+ research areas, summarized in September 2026. Study protocols, current status and public records can be requested from the research team; the listing does not imply completed studies or published findings.
Scientific outputs
Evidence available for scrutiny.
Ask for the study methods, reporting period, analysis cohort or available scientific materials behind a specific claim.
Name the result or research area you want to examine. You do not need to submit a research proposal to request information.
Governance and independenceConnected in purpose.
Connected in purpose.
Separate in responsibility.
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HeartLINK+ Ghana
Clinical implementation, diagnostics, operational performance and quality improvement.
G-ACT Foundation
Research coordination, equitable-access programs and evidence generation.
Independent academic partners
Study design, independent analysis, scientific interpretation and dissemination.
Research agreements define data control, access, analysis, publication, authorship and intellectual-property protections.
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Discuss the methods and evaluation questions that could strengthen the pathway.