POSTS TAGGED AS congestive heart failure

AI’s 100% Accuracy in Detecting Heat Failure from a Single Beat

AI diagnoses CHF
This sounds almost unbelievable, but researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) have used artificial intelligence to analyze [MORE]

A Vest that Uses Radar to Image Lungs

SensiVest Fitting
Ohio State University is conducting a clinical trial of a vest, made by Sensible Medical (Netanya, Israel) that uses [MORE]

InterAtrial Shunt Device

Corvia Medical Atrial Heart Device
About half of heart failure patients suffer from a stiffened heart muscle that causes blood to [MORE]

Implantable Heart Sensor to Monitor Cardiac Patients

CardioMEMS System
Last year, St. Jude Medical (Minneapolis, MN) acquired Atlanta-based CardioMEMS and subsequently won FDA approval for an implantable heart [MORE]

Heart Pump without Blood Contact

C Pulse Heart Assist System
A Minnesota company, Sunshine Heart (Eden Prairie, MN) has developed a balloon device that fits [MORE]

ROI Tool for Remote Monitoring

Cerner Patient Portal_
Two organizations—the Center for Technology and Aging (Oakland, CA) and the Center for Connected Health (Boston, MA)—have [MORE]

Study Results: Distance Monitoring of CHF Patients

In 2010, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced its “Beacon Communities” program, which funds healthcare IT [MORE]

Large Telemedicine Study in the UK

Last month, the UK Department of Health released results of a two year telemedicine study of 6,000 patients with [MORE]

Wireless Implanted Heart Monitor

Wireless Heart Monitor
When congestive heart failure patients are admitted to a hospital they may have a catheter inserted into [MORE]

Grants for Home Monitoring CHF

The Center for Technology and Aging (Oakland, CA) awarded grants this summer to five organizations with projects for remote patient [MORE]

Remote Monitoring of CHF Patients

Meridian Health (Neptune, NJ) is using MedApps (Scottsdale, AZ) telemonitoring services for congestive heart failure discharges.  The aim [MORE]

A Quarter of Heart Failure Patients Readmitted to Hospitals

Dr. Joseph Ross
Telemedicine solutions that minimize hospital readmissions for heart failure have a pretty big target to hit.  One [MORE]

Home Monitoring CHF

In Italy, doctors still make house calls; indeed, the Giovanni Battista Hospital in Torino has a Geriatric Home Hospitalization Service [MORE]

Noninvasive Device to Detect Congestive Heart Failure

Three years ago, researchers in Israel developed a novel technique that relies on electrical impedance to image internal organs.  Some [MORE]