Background Specialised disease management programmes for heart failure aim to improve
care, clinical outcomes and/or reduce healthcare utilisation. Since the last version of this …

Objective: Home telemonitoring represents a patient management approach combining
various information technologies for monitoring patients at distance. This study presents a …

Background: One area where telemedicine may prove to be highly effective is in providing
medical care to the geriatric population, an age group predicted to account for 20% of the …

Background: Patient empowerment is growing in popularity and application. Due to the
increasing possibilities of the Internet and eHealth, many initiatives that are aimed at …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of remote patient monitoring
(RPM) on the outcome of chronic heart failure (HF) patients. Background: RPM via regularly …

Background: Home telemonitoring figures among the various solutions that could help
attenuate some of the problems associated with aging populations, rates of chronic illness …

We conducted a systematic review of the literature about home telemonitoring compared
with usual care. An electronic literature search was conducted to identify studies of home …

BACKGROUND Remote monitoring (RM) strategies have the potential to deliver specialised
care and management to patients with heart failure (HF). OBJECTIVE To determine the …

We reviewed the literature on home telecare for elderly patients suffering from chronic
diseases. Articles published between 1990 and 2007 were identified via the PubMed …

Background Population aging is forcing the transformation of health care. Long-term care in
the home is complex and involves complex communication with primary care services. In …