Hospitals, patients embrace remote patient monitoring

After suffering two heart attacks at the age of 36, Shannon Wange depends on her cardiac app not just to stay alive, but to enable her to live the active life she has always enjoyed.

“I was actually in the gym, on the (stationary) bike when I had a heart attack,” said Wange, a 36-year-old Erie resident.  “Lucky for me, I had a friend there who is a cardiac nurse; she helped me and called 911. The paramedics whisked me off to Good Samaritan (Medical Center in Lafayette). My EKG (electrocardiogram) was normal, and then my…