Teledi@Log - Tele-rehabilitation of Heart Patients

Summary

The idea behind the Teledi@log consortium is to develop tele-rehabilitation concepts and technologies so that all types of heart disease patients, regardless of degree of severity, can be offered individual, customized and coordinated tele-rehabilitation across sectors. The project is innovative, breaking new ground in relation to existing national and international research projects in the area. The Teledi@log consortium sees its major task as developing and testing scenarios which can lead to a more coherent rehabilitation for heart patients in areas such as patient training, organization across the boundaries of the health system and using tele-rehabilitation technology. The Teledi@log consortium seeks to develop new tele-rehabilitation concepts which bring the patient closer to the health system and thereby promote the heart patient's rehabilitation, giving the patient and their families a more active role via new tele-rehabilitation technologies.The hypothesis of the study is that heart patients participating in a telerehabilitation program will have a higher quality of life compared to heart patients following traditional rehabilitation activities.

Conditions

• Heart Failure
• Myocardial Infarction
• Angina Pectoris
• Coronary Stenosis
• Mitral Valve Stenosis

Interventions

DEVICE

Telerehabilitation programme

Telerehabilitation programme: Each patient in the intervention group will use a telehealth monitor. The patient will measure blood pressure, pulse and weight once or twice a week over a 3 months periode with the use of a blood pressure monitor and a weightscale connected to the monitor. The patients will also measure their steps daily by the use of a digital stepcounter. The patients will be able to see their data in a personal health record on a tablet where they can share informations with their GP, nurse and doctor at the hospital or healthcare center. The patient are also offered access to a portal called www.aktivehjerte.dk where they can find informations on rehabilitations topics in text, video and sound.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• KMD

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• International Business Machines (IBM)

  collaborator INDUSTRY

• Tunstall Healthcare

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Oscar Film

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Roche Pharma AG

  collaborator INDUSTRY

• SOS International

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Danish Heart Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• Hjoerring Municipaility

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Frederikshavn Municipality

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Regionshospital Nordjylland

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Aalborg University Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Aarhus

  collaborator OTHER

• GP in the Municipalities of Hjoerring and Frederikshavn

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• EIR (Empowering Industry and Research)

  collaborator OTHER

• Aalborg University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Birthe Dinesen, PhD · Aalborg University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2012-12-31

Primary Completion

2014-11-30

Completion

2014-11-30

Countries

• Denmark

Study Locations