Background Specialised disease management programmes for heart failure aim to improve
care, clinical outcomes and/or reduce healthcare utilisation. Since the last version of this …

The last decade has witnessed a rapid increase of interest in new sensing and monitoring
devices, including wireless wearable mobile devices and sensing networks for medical …

Utilization of information and communication technologies such as mobile phones and
wireless sensor networks becomes more and more common in the field of telemonitoring for …

Background Heart failure (HF) is a chronic disease with significant impact on quality of life
and presents many challenges to those diagnosed with the condition, due to a seemingly …

Life expectancy is rising in most parts of the world as is the prevalence of chronic diseases.
Suboptimal adherence to long‐term medications is still rather the norm than the exception …

Poor patients' adherence to intake of prescribed medication has been identified as a serious
problem in the treatment of chronically ill patients. Technical solutions are needed to …

A pilot study was conducted to determine if a smartphone-based adjunct to standard care
could increase the completion rate of a cardiac rehabilitation program (CRP). Based on …

Non-adherence to a drug therapy is often the reason for not achieving the therapeutic goals
in patients. Measuring drug adherence is an important intervention to understand patients' …

Healthcare monitoring systems in hospitals and other health facilities have grown
significantly, and portable healthcare monitoring systems using emerging technologies such …

Telemedicine is a revolutionary method for optimizing long‐distance healthcare access
using telecommunications and modern information technology. This method facilitates the …