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 ...

Using telemedicine to monitor patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) initiating disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) was highly cost-effective and resulted in similar health outcomes ...

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 ...

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 ...

"With the monitoring system, you can receive all the information about patients while they are at home," lead investigator Dr Andrea Mortara (Policlinico di Monza, Milan, Italy) told heart wire. "This ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A 3-month telemonitoring and coaching program resulted in immediate short-term improvements in CPAP adherence, but failed to lead to sustained improvements over time, researchers reported. Researchers ...

Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are more likely to use CPAP, or continuous positive airway pressure, when their use is telemonitored and they receive individualized, automated messages ...