U-Healthcare Solution for Monitoring Heart Failure

Emerging Drug Therapies for Heart Failure

Heart failure is associated with high morbidity and mortality and is proving to be an economic burden in developing countries. A number of therapeutic agents are presently employed in heart failure; but they are not sufficient to control symptoms of heart failure. Moreover, the prevalence of chronic heart failure is progressively increasing and thus there is a continuing need to develop effecti...

Home monitoring for heart failure management.

With a prevalence of 5.8 million in the United States alone, heart failure (HF) is a common syndrome associated with substantial morbidity, mortality, and healthcare expenditures. Close to 1 million HF hospitalizations occur annually in the United States, with the majority of these resulting from worsening congestion in patients previously diagnosed with HF. An estimated $37.2 billion is spent ...

Hemodynamic Monitoring for Heart Failure Patients

Desai/Fig.2: Growing Burden of HF It is now well established that heart failure (HF) is a growing problem for the American healthcare system and even worldwide. The American Heart Association projects that the total number of prevalent cases of patients with HF will increase from roughly 5 million in the current era to nearly 8 million by 2030 – an increase of about 46%.[1] That means that in 2...

Remote monitoring in heart failure.

Integration of Wearable Monitoring Device and Android Smartphone Apps for u-Healthcare Monitoring System

The U-healthcare System is an interesting new technology that needs an extra attention from the researchers and developers. There have been a lot of researches on how to integrate the new technology to maximize the use to enhance the healthcare system but there is no specific research how it is to be done in a way that this is reliable and cost effective to the end users. This study is focused ...