Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death globally. There already exists a structured guideline to cardiac rehabilitation for CVD patients as a means of preventing recurrence(s) of any cardiac events and return to an active, healthy and satisfying lifestyle. Despite the availability of cardiac rehabilitation programs, utilisation among eligible patients has been less than 20%. The barriers to this underutilisation have been factors relating to patients, services, and professionals. An alternative approach is a home-based cardiac rehabilitation has shown some improvements in the patients’ uptake of these services. Recent developments in physiological monitoring, information processing, and communication technologies have shown potential to enable a home-based cardiac rehabilitation program for better uptake and adherence and coordination between a team of multidisciplinary carers. One approach has been to use communication technologies such as mobile phone platform to help improve the carers’ ability to give multimodal feedback to the patients regularly and enable the use of other multimedia formats.
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Abstract
Karunanithi, Mohanraj; Sarela, Antti, Handbook of Digital Homecare, 2009, 329-352, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01387-4_16
