Home telemonitoring or structured telephone support programmes after recent discharge in patients with heart failure: systematic review and economic evaluation

Abstract

The National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme.

Health Care Professionals’ Perceptions of Home Telemonitoring in Heart Failure Care: Cross-Sectional Survey (Preprint)

“…HCPs expressed the need for sufficient financial support for RTM to improve implementation, as confirmed in previous studies [20,31]. The costs of implementing RTM in the management of HF is not clearly reported, varying from low to high costs, depending on whether only equipment , costs, follow-up, or hospital admission costs are considered [15,32,33].…”

Telemonitoring in heart failure: Big Brother watching over you

“…As soon as a patient migrates outside of the 'health maintenance zone', the patient and/or telehealth team would be notified to intervene to prevent measurements straying too far from ideal and intervening long before an actual crisis situation occurs. Such a strategy would obviate the need for a 24/7 service and improve cost-effectiveness [53].…”

From Smart Phones to Smart Health

“…Usually re-hospitalization appears a week or several weeks after suffering a major cardiac event. There have been several studies on the cost and effectiveness of telemonitoring as an optimal strategy to reduce costs related with rehospitaliación [3,4]. Considerable cost savings are largely due to the unique possibility of an accurate and adequate monitoring of sensible and necessary information to make timely decisions which in turn avoid having to carry out rehospitalization.…”