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Telemedicine Technology Demonstration Project for Heart Failure

NCT02115620 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2018-08-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to see if telemedicine can help improve the health of patients with heart failure who have recently been hospitalized with heart problems, and are being discharged to a Skilled Nursing Facility. Telemedicine uses electronic communications to make patient/doctor visits possible from a distance.

This study will use remote video to allow heart failure specialists at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center to provide clinical health care to patients at Marquis Hills. Electronic monitors (including an electronic scale and blood pressure machine), and phone calls with the Marquis Hill nursing staff will be used to track patients' health status. The nursing staff will provide the heart failure specialists with daily updates on patients' symptoms, weight, vital signs (heart rate, blood pressure, pulse), and results of blood tests.

Additionally, some patients will be provided with monitoring devices that include an iPhone blood pressure monitor, and Smart Body Analyzer to use for 14 days. The Smart Body Analyzer measures weight, body fat percentage, and heart rate. It also measures indoor air quality. Special software on the iPhone will save this information and the information will be transmitted by secure email to the study doctors.

Hypothesis: The patients followed by telemedicine will have fewer visits to the Emergency Department, fewer deaths, and fewer hospital re-admissions than last year's site-specific average for this patient population.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Telemedicine

Daily updates on symptoms, weight, vital signs, and relevant labs will be communicated by phone with cardiology nurses at Providence Heart Clinic. Concerning changes in symptoms or signs will trigger a telemedicine clinic visit with a HF specialist using remote video/audio, virtual stethoscope technology, and VZ Cloud managed hosting. The consult will include a virtual face-face interview and physical examination between patient and HF clinician using Cisco Yabber Video, Littman e-stethoscope, and Verizon managed hosting. Medication changes, laboratory testing, additional virtual visits, or in-person clinic visits can be arranged as appropriate.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Verizon Wireless

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Providence Health & Services

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jacob Abraham, MD · Providence Health & Services

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-03-23
Primary Completion
2015-08-26
Completion
2015-08-26

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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