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Chronic Heart Failure

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Remote Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) care

Living with chronic heart failure is a source of stress and discomfort for patients. Innovating the care for this patient group is an important aspect when rethinking the healthcare systems of the future.

Telehealth tools that can monitor patients with chronic conditions such as chronic heart failure (CHF) remotely can provide patient insights and help reduce the burden on healthcare systems. At the same time, the technology can engage and encourage the patients to take an active role in their own disease management.

With Remote Patient Monitoring, CHF patients measure their vital signs and answer questions on their wellbeing daily and in the comfort of their own home. The questionnaire is designed by the healthcare provider in accordance with the hospital guidelines. Questionnaire design can include measurements of vitals such as blood pressure, pulse and weight. In this way, health changes can be detected early, and early intervention steps can be taken. See the research

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Benefits for the healthcare provider

Accompany your patients continuously between consultations
Provide a more holistic view of a patient’s health over time
Increase visibility into a patient’s adherence to a treatment
Enable early intervention

Benefits for the patients

Support to an active life by daily monitoring of the patients’ wellbeing
Increased patient engagement through involvement and health history
Early intervention leads to fewer and shorter hospital stays
Less travel and days off work

Remote Patient Monitoring features

Research

Is telehealthcare for heart failure patients cost-effective? An economic evaluation alongside the Danish TeleCare North heart failure trial

BMJ journals, Jan 2020

The TeleCare North solution for monitoring HF was highly cost-effective. There were significant cost savings on hospitalisations, primary care contacts and total costs.

Remote Management of Heart Failure: An Overview of Telemonitoring Technologies

NCBI, May 2019

It is not difficult to collect data remotely, but converting more data into better decision-making that improves the outcome of care is challenging. Meta-analysis of Standalone Telemonitoring Systems with other (small) studies suggested mortality benefit and a reduction in HF (but not all-cause) hospitalisation.

e-Health in cardiology: remote patient management of heart failure patients

European Society of Cardiology, Jul 2020

Telemedicine in HF patients is considered to be a relevant innovation that improves conventional HF outpatient care. The most beneficial HF patient group is patients at high risk, who were recently hospitalised due to HF in functional classes II and III, which represents approximately 20% of the total HF population.

Using Remote Patient Monitoring Technologies for Better Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes Guidance

American Heart Association, 2019

Clinicians can strengthen their relationships with, and improve the experience of, their patients by using the data sent to them via RPM to develop a personalized care plan and to engage in joint decision-making to foster better outcomes.

Strategic partnership

Intelligent combination of textile-ware and software

Through our partnership with Chronolife, Levvel Health offers an innovative and non-invasive solution consisting of a wearable medical device and our RPM solution, levvel.connect.

Keesense is a washable and comfortable medical device (CE Class IIa) resembling a t-shirt with multiple embedded sensors and electrodes. It is designed to capture continuous data on 6 physiological parameters. This innovative technology is developed with patients with chronic conditions such as chronic heart failure (CHF) in mind.

Visit Chronolife.net for more information