Key result
Wearable devices are rapidly expanding in use and may support improved decision-making by patients and healthcare professionals along the whole heart failure patient pathway.
Why the study?
Wearables are rapidly expanding, but integrating their data into heart failure care has been slow and few studies have assessed how best to incorporate them into practice.
Wearable devices offer potential for improved monitoring and management of heart failure, but significant barriers remain regarding data integration, clinical evidence, and regulatory approval.
Wearables may aid HF arrhythmia monitoring and rehab; leaves open need for outcome trials before adoption.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review discusses how wearable devices-sensors externally applied to the body to measure a physiological signal-can be used in heart failure (HF) care. RECENT FINDINGS: Most wearables are marketed to consumers and can measure movement, heart rate, and blood pressure; detect and monitor arrhythmia; and support exercise training and rehabilitation. Wearable devices targeted at healthcare professionals include ECG patch recorders and vests, patches, and textiles with in-built sensors for improved prognostication and the early detection of acute decompensation. Integrating data from wearables into clinical decision-making has been slow due to clinical inertia and concerns regarding data security and validity, lack of evidence of meaningful impact, interoperability, regulatory and reimbursement issues, and legal liability. Although few studies have assessed how best to integrate wearable technologies into clinical practice, their use is rapidly expanding and may support improved decision-making by patients and healthcare professionals along the whole patient pathway.
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Singhal et al. (2020) conducted a review in Heart failure. Wearable devices was evaluated. Wearable devices are rapidly expanding in use and may support improved decision-making by patients and healthcare professionals along the whole heart failure patient pathway.
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