Telehealth presents opportunities for enhanced care and benefits to patients with heart failure. As technology develops, telehealth is increasingly being integrated into the standard care of heart failure. Telehealth can help enhance timely access and follow-up, facilitate care coordination for diagnostic and management strategies, individualize management, increase opportunities for multidisciplinary care, help implement complementary management strategies, and improve outcomes. Telehealth commonly includes clinician-to-clinician communication; patient interaction with mobile health technologies including remote monitoring, and clinician-to-patient interaction modalities. Despite all the potential benefits of expanded access, telehealth may have limitations especially for vulnerable populations, who are at risk for less access to telehealth modalities and infrastructure. Clinicians and health networks should examine strategies to incorporate telehealth in the management of patients with heart failure. Health care systems should invest in technologies and provide equipment and connectivity to ensure that telehealth does not widen health disparities.
Keywords: Heart failure; Remote monitoring; Telehealth; Telemedicine.
Published by Elsevier Inc.