Registry Study for the Evaluation of High-risk Cardiac Patients by WILLEM AI-based ECG Platform
WILLEMRegistry
1 other identifier
observational
200,000
2 countries
4
Brief Summary
The WILLEM Registry is a large-scale, single-group, observational, registry study to collect continuous clinical evidence of Willem in real-world settings. Cardiovascular diseases are a major problem for public health and healthcare systems. Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are simple tests which increase diagnostic performance and early detection of cardiovascular diseases. However, its interpretation is complex, time consuming for cardiology experts, and entails high costs for healthcare systems. Willem allows AI-based automatic interpretation and its performance has been examined in previous clinical trials, but additional clinical evidence is needed for its integration in real-world clinical settings. This study will collect clinical evidence of Willem performance to detect cardiac abnormalities in ECGs from high-risk cardiac patients admitted to cardiovascular units.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for all trials
Started Feb 2026
Longer than P75 for all trials
4 active sites
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
December 30, 2025
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
January 12, 2026
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
February 3, 2026
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
January 1, 2036
ExpectedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
January 1, 2036
April 13, 2026
December 1, 2025
9.9 years
December 30, 2025
April 8, 2026
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Primary endpoint analysis: Willem performance
ECG data will be categorized according to SOC-defined cardiopathies, arrhythmic events, and cardiac diseases. If SOC diagnosis is unavailable or inconsistent, an independent committee of expert cardiologists will review and provide their diagnosis according to a cardiac defined ontology which extends values defined in HL7-aECG data store. Then, the performance of Willem to detect cardiac patterns, arrhythmias, and cardiac disease from ECGs will be assessed. In order to define True Positive, True Negative, False Positive, and False Negative classifications, the ground truth for comparison will be Standard Of Care (SOC) manually performed cardiologist diagnosis. Performance metrics such as diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, predictive positive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), F1-Score and Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (AUROC) will be obtained.
From enrollment to any standard of care timepoint when the patient underwent (retrospective) or will undergo within the next 10 years (prospective) an eligible electrocardiogram
Study Arms (2)
High-risk cardiac patients
High-risk cardiac patients undergoing routine care electrocardiogram (ECG) for assessment of arrhythmias or cardiac diseases
Controls
In case of any cardiac disease diagnosed to the high-risk cardiac patient cohort, controls will be any enrolled patient with no confirmed diagnosis of such cardiac disease
Interventions
There is no study intervention. The Willem AI platform will assess all study ECGs for the identification of cardiac patterns, arrhythmias, and/or cardiac diseases. Regardless of retrospective or prospective enrollment, Willem output will not be provided to the healthcare professional user for clinical evaluation, and therefore routine practice will not be impacted nor altered.
Eligibility Criteria
Subjects with high-risk and/or high-cost cardiac disease undergoing standard of care ECG assessment during the screening or diagnostic process, complementary tests, interventions, and/or clinical follow-up visits in any setup of care. Additionally, for the assessment of cardiac disease detection, subjects with no cardiac risk may be recruited as well for comparison between confirmed diagnosed patients and confirmed negative diagnosed subjects.
You may qualify if:
- EC/IRB approval of ICF waiver prior to recruitment; otherwise, signed informed consent form by subject and investigator
- Age \> 18 years-old, with no upper limit
- Subjects undergoing standard of care electrocardiogram (ECG) of any duration from any hardware device
- All available, but at least one, legible ECG tracings in raw data format (e.g. DICOM, XML, EDF, JSON, HL7, SCP, WFDB, CSV, etc.)
- Available subject clinical data associated with the ECG
- For 12-lead ECGs, a minimum length of 10 seconds at a minimum sample frequency of 250 Hz
- For ECGs from Holters, wearables, patches, insertable cardiac monitors, telemetries, etc., a minimum length of 30 seconds at a minimum sample frequency of 200 Hz with a lead I / II or its MCL-DII lead approximation
- For prospective eligibility only:
- Signed informed consent form, unless previously waived by the EC/IRB
- Site technical viability for ECG and subject clinical data transfer (e.g. end-to-end integration following interoperability standards such as FHIR, HL7 or DICOM)
You may not qualify if:
- Unavailable or suboptimal quality of the raw data from the ECG signal
- Age \< 18 years-old
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- Idoven 1903 S.L.lead
Study Sites (4)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee, 37232, United States
La Paz University Hospital
Madrid, 28046, Spain
Puerta de Hierro University Hospital
Madrid, 28222, Spain
Murcia University
Murcia, 30100, Spain
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Observational Model
- CASE CONTROL
- Time Perspective
- OTHER
- Sponsor Type
- INDUSTRY
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
December 30, 2025
First Posted
January 12, 2026
Study Start
February 3, 2026
Primary Completion (Estimated)
January 1, 2036
Study Completion (Estimated)
January 1, 2036
Last Updated
April 13, 2026
Record last verified: 2025-12