New England Journal of Medicine: Wearable Digital Health Technology for Epilepsy One third of people with epilepsy have seizures despite medical treatment. The authors examine wearable digital health devices that can detect seizures and how these devices can affect epilepsy care.
American Journal of Managed Care: Scaling Care Coordination Through Digital Engagement: Stepped-Wedge Trial Assessing Readmissions Transitions of care represent a pivotal time period for patients as they are discharged from the hospital to a home setting. This study examined the usage of postdischarge digital engagement (PDDE) to engage patients during this traditionally risky time period. [...]
Association of Community Cancer Centers: Digital Tools in Cancer Care The Association of Community Cancer Centers conducted a survey, which found that providers, patients, and caregivers were willing to utilize digital, remote patient-monitoring (RPM) tools to report symptoms throughout anti-cancer treatments. Key survey results found more than half (60 percent) of providers who implemented an RPM program said [...]
Grand View Research: Patient Monitoring Devices Industry to Rise with Strong Demand for Remote Patient Monitoring Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has amassed popularity as a promising technology to minimize the chances of hospitalization. Grand View Research released its Patient Monitoring Devices Industry Data Book, 2023-2030 and found that remote monitoring has become instrumental in [...]
A Nationwide Telehealth Heart Failure Program: Can Remote Patient Monitoring and Guideline Directed Treatment Protocols Help Bridge the Gaps in Heart Failure Management?
Longer-Term Effects of Remote Patient Management Following Hospital Discharge After Acute Systolic Heart Failure: The Randomized E-INH Trial Background: The randomized INH (Interdisciplinary Network Heart Failure) trial (N = 715) reported that 6 months' remote patient management (RPM) (HeartNetCare-HF) did not reduce the primary outcome (time to all-cause death/rehospitalization) vs usual care (UC) in patients discharged [...]
Heart Failure Drug Treatment-Inertia, Titration, and Discontinuation: A Multinational Observational Study (EVOLUTION HF) Background: Guidelines recommend early initiation of multiple guideline-directed medical therapies (GDMTs) to reduce mortality/rehospitalization in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction. Understanding GDMT use is critical to improving clinical practice. Objectives: This study sought to describe GDMT use in Japan, Sweden, and [...]
Mount Sinai Health tackles digital health inequity with robust RPM program
Diabetes Technology: Standards of Care in Diabetes—2023 The American Diabetes Association (ADA) “Standards of Care in Diabetes” includes the ADA’s current clinical practice recommendations and is intended to provide the components of diabetes care, general treatment goals and guidelines, and tools to evaluate quality of care. Members of the ADA Professional Practice Committee, a multidisciplinary [...]
Safety, tolerability and efficacy of up-titration of guideline-directed medical therapies for acute heart failure (STRONG-HF): a multinational, open-label, randomised, trial Background: There is a paucity of evidence for dose and pace of up-titration of guideline-directed medical therapies after admission to hospital for acute heart failure. Methods: In this multinational, open-label, randomised, parallel-group trial (STRONG-HF), patients aged 18-85 [...]