Home Monitoring of Congestive Heart Failure Patients

Author

Levine, Betty A. ; McAlinden, Ellen ; Hu, Tang Ming-Jye ; Fang, Fang Maggie ; Alaoui, Adil ; Angelus, Pamela ; Welsh, James ; Mun, Seong K.

Author_Institution

ISIS Center, Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC

fYear

2006

fDate

2-4 April 2006

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

36

Abstract

Home healthcare technologies can help patients maintain their independence, allow them to stay in their own homes, improve health outcomes, and reduce costs. Mindmy-Heart, a CMS-funded project at Georgetown University Medical Center, has successfully implemented multiple technologies, such as home monitoring devices and care management tools, to allow for in-home management of congestive heart failure

Keywords

cardiology; diseases; health care; home automation; medical computing; patient monitoring; telemedicine; Georgetown University Medical Center; care management tool; congestive heart failure patient; home healthcare technology; home monitoring; in-home management; Biomedical monitoring; Collision mitigation; Condition monitoring; Costs; Heart; Intersymbol interference; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Project management; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2. 1st Transdisciplinary Conference on

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0058-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624790

Filename

1624790