Heartbeat: empowering patients with digital home management

Patients have access to low-cost devices that can monitor heart rate continuously, record an electrocardiogram, quantitate daily physical activity and measure blood oxygen saturation as well as body weight and home blood pressure measurements In this issue of Heart, Rahimi and colleagues1 report a clinical trial of 202 high-risk patients with heart failure (HF) randomised to home self-monitoring of weight and blood pressure versus additional centralised specialist feedback to the patient about self-management and to the patient’s primary provider about recommended blood tests and medical therapy AVR, aortic valve replacement;ETT, exercise treadmill test;LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction;MDT, multidisciplinary team;PASP, pulmonary artery systolic pressure;sAVR, surgical aortic valve replacement;TAVI, transcatheter aortic valve implantation;TTE, transthoracic echocardiogram Please also join me in congratulating the winner and finalists for the Heart Best Research Paper Award 2020 (table 2) 9Table 2 Heart best research paper award winner and finalists 2020 Winner Ralph Kwame Akyea, Joe Kai, Nadeem Qureshi, Barbara Iyen, Stephen F Weng Suboptimal cholesterol response to initiation of statins and future risk of cardiovascular disease Heart Jul 2019, 105 (13) 975–981;DOI: 10 1136/heartjnl-2018-314253 Finalists Weijian Huang, Lan Su, Shengjie Wu, Lei Xu, Fangyi Xiao, Xiaohong Zhou, Guangyun Mao, Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, Kenneth A Ellenbogen Long-term outcomes of His bundle pacing in patients with heart failure with left bundle branch block Heart Jan 2019, 105 (2) 137–143;DOI: 10 1136/heartjnl-2018-313415 Ralph Maddison, Jonathan Charles Rawstorn, Ralph A H Stewart, Jocelyne Benatar, Robyn Whittaker, Anna Rolleston, Yannan Jiang, Lan Gao, Marj Moodie, Ian Warren, Andrew Meads, Nicholas Gant Effects and costs of real-time cardiac telerehabilitation: randomised controlled non-inferiority trial Heart Jan 2019, 105 (2) 122–129;DOI: 10 1136/heartjnl-2018-313189 Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors