Online cardiac second opinion
Your Incision Should Be Your Decision™
A cardiac surgeon and cardiologist independently review the same required records and imaging, confer, and co-sign one patient-facing report—without a referral or a trip to another hospital for the written review.
What happens next: A member of our team will call within 2 business hours. During business hours, a same-day conversation with a cardiac surgeon or cardiologist may be arranged only when clinically appropriate and a physician is available.
The written review includes both physician reviews and the co-signed written report; it does not include a live physician consultation. A live consultation with one reviewing physician can be added. Pricing is shared during your complimentary discovery call.
ONE COMPLETE RECORD
What “online” should mean
This is not a quick answer based on a questionnaire or a single uploaded report. The physicians review the required source record and imaging first. The co-signed written analysis is the product; a live conversation is optional.
The practical advantage: you can begin from home, understand whether another specialist or center is worth pursuing, and take a structured report back to the clinicians who know you.
Message Us about the decisionA complete-record review from home
The written review happens asynchronously so both physicians can examine the source evidence before the analysis is finalized.
Upload records and required imaging without traveling to another hospital for the written review. No referral is required to begin.
The physicians review the source notes, testing, imaging, and proposed plan required for the question—not only a form, report, or isolated study.
A cardiac surgeon and cardiologist examine the same required record independently, then confer before the report is finalized.
Every plan includes one co-signed patient-facing report. Live time is not required and is included only in the Consult plan.
Decisions we can review
Whether an individual case can be reviewed depends on the question and the availability of the required record and imaging. The service does not remotely determine candidacy or issue treatment orders.
Why bypass, stents, medical therapy, or another path is being discussed—and which anatomy, symptoms, testing, and risk questions shape the comparison.
Open, minimally invasive, transcatheter, repair, and replacement questions for aortic or mitral valve disease when supported by the record.
Aneurysm, root, ascending-aorta, arch, valve, genetic, surveillance, timing, and center-experience questions in the context of the available imaging.
Phenotype, obstruction, symptoms, medication history, mitral anatomy, myectomy, alcohol septal ablation, rhythm, and experienced-center context.
The documented rhythm history, prior treatment, stroke-risk context, proposed ablation or surgery, and questions for cardiology, electrophysiology, or surgery.
Repeat operations, combined procedures, minimally invasive approaches, prior devices or grafts, recovery burden, and procedure-specific team experience.
FROM HOME TO A CLEARER DECISION
Clarity without another trip
The review can help clarify what the record supports, which questions remain, and whether an in-person specialist, procedure-specific center, or transfer conversation belongs in the next step. It does not replace urgent or necessary in-person care.
Message Us about my caseWHITEGLOVE Heart Team
A cardiac surgeon and cardiologist review independently, then confer and co-sign one patient-facing report.
Reviews the proposed operation or procedure, anatomy, technical alternatives, operative-risk context, recovery burden, and procedure-specific team experience.
WHITEGLOVE Insights™One co-signed reportIndependent reviews · physician conference · patient-facing explanationReviews the diagnosis, symptoms, heart function, testing, medical therapy, longitudinal history, reasonable alternatives, and risks of deferral.
WHITEGLOVE Insights™
The report connects the source record, evidence, two physician perspectives, limits, tradeoffs, and next questions without issuing a remote treatment order.
See a sample reportDECISION FOCUS
Diagnosis, relevant history, source findings, proposed procedure or treatment, urgency, and the treating team’s documented reasoning.
The operating-room and longitudinal cardiology views are developed independently, discussed together, and preserved in one report.
Applicable guideline and risk-model context is connected to the documented case, with inputs, missing information, and important limits visible.
Reasonable open, minimally invasive, catheter-based, medical, staged, surveillance, or further-evaluation paths when supported by the record.
Incomplete records, unresolved findings, absent imaging, and questions that could materially change how the proposed decision is understood.
A practical list to use with the treating team, including center or specialist fit when another opinion or transfer conversation may be worth considering.
A different starting point
The online review can organize the decision before you determine whether another appointment, specialist, surgeon, or hospital is necessary.
The required record and imaging are reviewed before any optional live conversation.
The visit may be the starting point, with outside records reviewed before or after depending on the practice.
A cardiac surgeon and cardiologist both review every case.
Often begins with one clinician or specialty.
One structured, co-signed written report is included in both plans.
The format and availability of a written summary vary.
No travel is required for the written medical-record review.
Travel and new-patient logistics may be required.
Independent educational decision support; no treating relationship is established.
May establish a treating relationship when care is accepted.
Begin in writing
The written-review plan is the complete written review without a live physician consultation. The Consult plan adds one live consultation with one reviewing physician.
Two independent physician reviews plus one co-signed written report. No live physician consultation.
Everything in the written review plus one live consultation with one reviewing physician.
The report is delivered within 24 hours only after all required records and imaging are received and confirmed complete. Time spent gathering missing records is outside the 24-hour window.
How it works
One coordinated, virtual process—with records support available and a clear start to the 24-hour review window.
Tell us what you were told, what is scheduled, and what still feels unclear. You do not need every record or the right medical terminology to send the first message.
Upload what you have. With your authorization, the records team can help identify and request the relevant notes, reports, required imaging, and proposed plan.
A cardiac surgeon and cardiologist review the same required records and imaging independently, then confer.
The report is delivered within 24 hours only after all required records and imaging are received and confirmed complete. Time spent gathering missing records is outside the 24-hour window. Both reviewing physicians co-sign the patient-facing report.
Frequently asked questions
Direct answers about the record review, live consultation, timing, travel, and clinical boundaries.
It is a remote, medical-record-based review of a cardiac diagnosis, treatment, or procedure decision. With WHITEGLOVEMD, a cardiac surgeon and cardiologist independently review the same required records and imaging, confer, and co-sign one patient-facing WHITEGLOVE Insights™ report.
No. The foundation is asynchronous review of the required medical record and imaging by two physicians, not an on-demand video visit. The written-review plan includes the complete written review with no live physician consultation. The Consult plan adds one scheduled live consultation with one reviewing physician.
A cardiac surgeon and cardiologist independently review the same required records and imaging, then confer and co-sign one report. Both reviews are included in both plans.
The service can review many decisions involving coronary bypass, valve procedures, aortic surgery, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, AFib or rhythm surgery, repeat operations, minimally invasive approaches, and other complex cardiac questions when the necessary records and imaging are available. Whether a specific case can be reviewed depends on the question and record.
The exact record depends on the condition and proposed path. It may include specialist notes, echocardiography, catheterization, CT or MRI studies, laboratory results, hospital records, prior operative or procedure reports, rhythm data, medication history, and the proposed plan. Upload what you have, and the records team can help identify what is still needed.
No referral is required to begin, and no travel is required for the written medical-record review. If the report identifies a reason to consider an in-person specialist or center, you decide what to do next with the clinicians responsible for your care.
Yes. The patient-facing report is designed to support a more productive conversation with your treating cardiologist, surgeon, primary care physician, and family. You decide whom to share it with and what action, if any, to take.
The WHITEGLOVE Insights™ plan includes two independent physician reviews plus one co-signed written report. It does not include a live physician consultation.
Yes. The WHITEGLOVE Consult plan includes everything in the written review plus one live consultation with one reviewing physician.
The report is delivered within 24 hours only after all required records and imaging are received and confirmed complete. Time spent gathering missing records is outside the 24-hour window.
No. WHITEGLOVEMD provides independent educational decision support and medical-record review. It does not diagnose, prescribe, perform procedures, establish a physician–patient relationship, provide emergency care, or replace the clinicians responsible for treatment.
Do not wait for an online review. Call 911 or seek immediate emergency care for new or severe chest pain, severe shortness of breath, fainting, stroke symptoms, sudden severe chest or back pain, or rapid worsening. WHITEGLOVEMD is not an emergency service, and a records review should never delay urgent evaluation or treatment.
Clarity can start from home
Tell us what was proposed, what is already scheduled, and what still feels unresolved. You do not need every record—or the right medical words—to begin.
What happens next: A member of our team will call within 2 business hours. During business hours, a same-day conversation with a cardiac surgeon or cardiologist may be arranged only when clinically appropriate and a physician is available.