Remote Monitoring

Remote cardiac monitoring technologies enable patient health to be tracked outside the clinical setting. It can be used for longer term monitoring to help diagnosis arrhythmias or other cardiac conditions. Remote monitoring also can keep tabs on chronic conditions such as heart failure or hypertension and alert clinicians to worsening symptoms to avoid an acute care episode or hospitalization.

Cardiostim 2016: Growing Importance of Remote Monitoring and Potential for New Heart Monitor Indications Detailed at Scientific Session

(PresseBox) BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring® received strong endorsements during the Cardiostim scientific session “Improving Patient Outcomes in Arrhythmia Management.” 

Medtronic Announces FDA Approval and Launch of World's First App-Based Remote Monitoring System for Pacemakers

Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and U.S. commercial availability of the MyCareLink Smart(TM) Monitor, the world's first app-based remote monitoring system for patients with implantable pacemakers.

FDA approves app-based remote monitoring system for patients with implantable pacemakers

On Nov. 17, the FDA approved the MyCareLink Smart Monitor, the first app-based remote monitoring system in the U.S. for patients with implantable pacemakers.

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HRS statement recommends remote monitoring as standard of care

A panel of experts recommended that remote monitoring become the standard of care for patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), according to a consensus statement from the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS). The statement was published online in Heart Rhythm on May 13.

Data shows the CardioMEMS HF System adds incremental benefit when combined with device therapy and is cost effective

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today announced important new data presented during the Heart Rhythm Society's (HRS) 36th annual Scientific Session supporting improved outcomes and cost-effectiveness of the CardioMEMS™ HF System for the management of Class III heart failure patients.

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The disconnect in remote monitoring

The evidence favors remote monitoring using implantable cardiac devices yet few take advantage of the resource.

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HRS.15: Remote monitoring leads to cost savings, fewer hospitalizations

BOSTON—Patients who had remote monitoring in their implantable electronic cardiac devices had lower all-cause hospitalization costs and recurrent hospitalizations compared with patients without remote monitoring capabilities, according to a large, retrospective, cohort study.

Remote monitoring tech in cardiac devices helps improve survival

A comparative effectiveness study of more than 250,000 patients implanted with cardiac devices between 2008 and 2011 found that embedding remote monitoring technology led to improved survival.

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