Use of Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes and Automated Devices for Heart Failure Disease Management

• DOI: 10.2196/iproc.8459
• Publication Date: 2017-09-22T13:00:22Z
• Authors: Sean Pinney; Emamuzo Otobo; Robert Freeman; Jason Rogers; Farah Fasihuddin; Karthik Ramireddy; Allyssa Deorocki; Neda Hassanzadeh; Marni Goldstein; Rivelle Zlatopolsky; Jennifer Ullman; Ashish Atreja
• Keywords: Reimbursement; Disease management

Background: Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a major public health issue. Today, CHF affects 6.5 million people in the U.S. and incidence rate projected to rise by 46% more than 8 cases 2030. Current reimbursement policies use readmission rates length of hospital stays as indicators quality care, incentivize providers meet these measures cost hospitalization alone significantly contributes overall burden on patients systems. Symptoms can be unpredictable presently there are no reliable solutions track disease control for discharged patients.