Mobile Health Monitoring of Cardiac Status

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are responsible for more deaths than any other cause, with coronary heart disease and stroke accounting for two-thirds of those deaths. Morbidity and mortality due to CVD are largely preventable, through either primary prevention of disease or secondary prevention of cardiac events. Monitoring cardiac status in healthy and diseased cardiovascular systems has the potential to dramatically reduce cardiac illness and injury. Smart technology in concert with mobile health platforms is creating an environment where timely prevention of and response to cardiac events are becoming a reality.

MyCap: a flexible and configurable platform for mobilizing the participant voice

“…Examples of similar or related products include Open Data Kit (ODK), Computerized Intervention Authoring System (CIAS), Thread, Medable, MyStudies, and Eforms. 34–38 These applications share many of MyCap’s capabilities, such as offline data collection, customizable surveys, and compatibility with both Android and iOS devices. However, MyCap is unique in its seamless integration with REDCap and support through the REDCap Consortium.…”

An Apple Watch Dashboard for HiGHmed Heart Insufficency Patients

“…Additionally, it provides a way to observe how a patient's daily behavior is associated with parameters collected during a patient's hospital visit. Potentially our program could also be used to track health parameters of patients undergoing medication therapy as was suggested in previous studies [10,11]. All of these capabilities allow for better monitoring of patient health outside of the hospital.…”

“…Recently, researchers are trying to find new applications for ECGs from wearables, for example by estimating the distance between ECG components, such as the QTc interval, which can be useful for monitoring patients during antiarrhythmic drug therapy, or the ST segment, whose changes can indicate acute coronary syndromes [8,9]. Smartwatches are also instrumental to remotely monitor a patient from their home environment after surgery or during medication therapy [10,11].…”