Title :
Home telemonitoring of vital signs and cardiorespiratory signals in chronic heart failure patients
Author :
Pinna, G.D. ; Maestri, R. ; Capomolla, S. ; La Rovere, M.T. ; Andrews, D. ; Johnson, P. ; Mortara, A.
Author_Institution :
S. Maugeri Found., IRCCS, Italy
Abstract :
HHH (Home or Hospital in Heart failure) is an ongoing European Community multicountry study aimed at assessing 3 incremental home telemonitoring strategies against usual clinical practice in relation to rehospitalization, quality of life, mortality and cost-utility. Besides monitoring vital signs by means of an automatic interactive voice response system, this study will evaluate in the home setting a new system for long-term noninvasive cardiorespiratory monitoring, suitable to be self-managed by the patient, with transmission of acquired data through standard telephone lines.
Keywords :
computerised monitoring; diseases; electrocardiography; medical computing; patient monitoring; pneumodynamics; telemedicine; telephone lines; ECG; automatic interactive voice response system; cardiorespiratory signals; chronic heart failure patients; cost-utility; data transmission; home telemonitoring; mortality; rehospitalization; standard telephone lines; vital signs monitoring; Cardiology; Computerized monitoring; Condition monitoring; Heart rate variability; Hospitals; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Speech synthesis; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering, 2003. IEEE EMBS Asian-Pacific Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7943-8
DOI :
10.1109/APBME.2003.1302570
