Older patients with heart, lung or kidney disease who were monitored with at-home electronic systems were just as likely to be sent to the emergency room or hospitalized as those who weren't monitored ...

Patients with chronic diseases make choices that can dramatically affect their health everyday. Those who are able to manage their chronic diseases successfully do so primarily by learning about their ...

Use of telemonitoring was feasible and associated with high patient satisfaction in a pilot project of low-income, black patients with congestive HF. Researchers enrolled 15 low-income, black patients ...

A review of studies assessing the impact of telemonitoring on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) outcomes resulted in mixed findings. As the US healthcare system continues to move toward ...

Whether noninvasive telemonitoring helps keep individuals with heart failure (HF) alive and out of the hospital may depend less on the particulars of the telemonitoring and overall disease-management ...

Home telemonitoring for older patients with chronic conditions did not deliver significant cost savings, according to a study in Telemedicine and e-Health. Researchers from Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Multimodal telemonitoring may aid in weight loss efforts by patients with obstructive sleep apnea and obesity, ...

NYACK, N.Y., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- A clinical study is underway at Nyack Hospital to evaluate the use of cellphone-based technology to monitor medication adherence in discharged heart failure ...

May 22, 2011 –Gothenburg, Sweden: Two trials presented at the Heart Failure Congress 2011, organized by the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (HFA of the ESC), will help ...

Though the trial demonstrates the feasibility of the approach, future research is needed to assess the clinical impact.

Telemonitoring may help improve continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy adherence for patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA), while motivational enhancement therapy (MET) most ...