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Is the Heart Failure Management (HFM) wearable and mobile system usable and acceptable for remote management of heart failure patients?
Is the Heart Failure Management (HFM) wearable and mobile system usable and acceptable for remote management of heart failure patients?
A newly developed wearable and mobile system for remote heart failure management demonstrated good usability, acceptability, and technical stability in field tests.
Feasibility of wearable HF monitoring supported in small validation; leaves open clinical efficacy and adoption in routine care.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) account for 45% of all deaths in the western world according to the 2004 World Health Organization statistics report. Heart failure (HF), CVD's primary paradigm, mainly affects people older than 65. The European MyHeart Project's mission is to empower citizens to fight CVD by leading a preventative lifestyle and allowing early diagnosis. This paper presents the iterative design and development of the HF management system, part of MyHeart Project. The system daily measures vital body signals to assess HF. The methodology applied herein has involved stakeholders in an iterative process: concept validation, feasibility, efficiency, patients' experience, and patients' acceptance. The final solution allows patient self-management of their chronic condition.
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