“The newly launched telemedicine-project ‘My Heart’ is an initiative of state health insurer ‘Deutsche Angestellten Krankenkasse’ (DAK) and a group of private clinics in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein together with the home-visiting doctors and specialists that cooperate with them.
As a result, patients will receive telecare at home through tele-diagnosis. In Schleswig-Holstein, the mortality rate due to heart failure has been 36 % above the national average. Now, with the ‘My Heart’ project, a unique network of specialists should significantly improve the care of those affected; the medical experts of the clinic as well as their partners are available to provide support and advice to the participants.”
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eGovMonitor, 22 July 2011
