Smartphone-based cardiac implantable electronic device remote monitoring : improved compliance and connectivity

© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology..

Aims: Remote monitoring (RM) is the standard of care for follow up of patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices. The aim of this study was to compare smartphone-based RM (SM-RM) using patient applications (myMerlinPulse™ app) with traditional bedside monitor RM (BM-RM).

Methods and results: The retrospective study included de-identified US patients who received either SM-RM or BM-RM capable of implantable cardioverter defibrillators or cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (Abbott, USA). Patients in SM-RM and BM-RM groups were propensity-score matched on age and gender, device type, implant year, and month. Compliance with RM was quantified as the proportion of patients enrolling in the RM system (Merlin.net™) and transmitting data at least once. Connectivity was measured by the median number of days between consecutive transmissions per patient. Of the initial 9714 patients with SM-RM and 26 679 patients with BM-RM, 9397 patients from each group were matched. Remote monitoring compliance was higher in SM-RM; significantly more patients with SM-RM were enrolled in RM compared with BM-RM (94.4 vs. 85.0%, P < 0.001), similar number of patients in the SM-RM group paired their device (95.1 vs. 95.0%, P = 0.77), but more SM-RM patients transmitted at least once (98.1 vs. 94.3%, P < 0.001). Connectivity was significantly higher in the SM-RM, with patients transmitting data every 1.2 (1.1, 1.7) vs. every 1.7 (1.5, 2.0) days with BM-RM (P < 0.001) and remained better over time. Significantly more SM-RM patients utilized patient-initiated transmissions compared with BM-RM (55.6 vs. 28.1%, P < 0.001).

Conclusion: In this large real-world study, patients with SM-RM demonstrated improved compliance and connectivity compared with BM-RM.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:4

Enthalten in:

European heart journal. Digital health - 4(2023), 1 vom: 27. Jan., Seite 43-52

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Manyam, Harish [VerfasserIn]
Burri, Haran [VerfasserIn]
Casado-Arroyo, Ruben [VerfasserIn]
Varma, Niraj [VerfasserIn]
Lennerz, Carsten [VerfasserIn]
Klug, Didier [VerfasserIn]
Carr-White, Gerald [VerfasserIn]
Kolli, Kranthi [VerfasserIn]
Reyes, Ignacio [VerfasserIn]
Nabutovsky, Yelena [VerfasserIn]
Boriani, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bluetooth
Cardiac implantable electronic devices
Compliance
Connectivity
Journal Article
Patient-initiated transmissions
Radio frequency

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Date Revised 07.02.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/ehjdh/ztac071

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM352538740