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This study introduces Cardiologent, a multi-agent clinical decision support system that enhances patient-level arrhythmia assessment by integrating ECG readings and patient data to inform clinical decisions. By employing a structured approach where each agent analyzes specific signal features and aligns findings with clinical guidelines, Cardiologent outperforms traditional methods in integrated diagnosis, clinical significance, and urgency management. The system not only achieves high agreement with expert cardiologists but also enables auditable decision-making, paving the way for its application in continuous patient monitoring.
Cardiologent achieves superior arrhythmia decision-making by integrating real-time ECG analysis with patient-specific data and clinical guidelines, outperforming cardiologists in accuracy and reliability.
The same episode of atrial fibrillation is a minor finding in a healthy adult and grounds for anticoagulation in an elderly patient with hypertension: identical signal, opposite decision. Naming the rhythm is only the start; what determines a patient's outcome is the judgement that follows -- what the arrhythmia is across the whole record, what it means for this patient, and what should be done about it. Recent work pairing large language models with the ECG stops short of this, reading one recording without assembling a patient-level finding; and agentic systems built around it either receive the arrhythmia a device has already detected or target a different diagnostic task, stopping before the decision this task requires. We formulate patient-level arrhythmia decision support as a task and present Cardiologent, a multi-agent system that spans it from detection to decision. An agent for each signal -- a single ECG lead and the photoplethysmogram a wearable acquires -- grounds its window reading in measured features rather than a bare label; the readings are assembled into the patient's rhythm profile and, with the patient's own data, reasoned against clinical guidelines retrieved for the case, with a critic checking each conclusion against the guideline it cites. We evaluate the clinical decision rather than the report, across integrated diagnosis, clinical significance, and urgency and management. Cardiologent scores highest on every axis, first on every patient-level task under both cardiologists and an at-scale LLM judge -- whose agreement with the cardiologists (ICC 0.74, 0.66) matches theirs with each other (0.67). Because each conclusion traces to a cited guideline and is validated against expert cardiologists, it yields decisions a clinician can audit rather than act on blindly -- a step toward use in continuous monitoring.