Tunstall Nordic AB

The primary objective of this project is to investigate whether, in a pilot randomised controlled trial, the use of telecare (remote monitoring) technologies reduces the frequency of hospital admissions for people with chronic heart failure (CHF) and to inform the design of a larger randomised controlled trial of telecare for CHF.
Secondary objectives are:
To investigate whether there are benefits to users
To understand the impact on carers in terms of carer stress
To investigate whether there are benefits to the NHS and other statutory provisions
To investigate which users receive the greatest benefits
To inform whether remote monitoring of CHF patients should be provided as part of hospital discharge for a set period of time or whether it should be provided long term and be used in a preventative manner
To investigate whether CHF episodes can be detected and predicted based on lifestyle changes
To determine whether lifestyle monitoring equipment can be correlated with the information from the CHF monitoring system to determine the potential to detect deteriorating health.