Redesign of Implantable Cardiac Device Workflow Improves Remote Monitoring Timeliness and Heart Failure Alert Metrics
摘要
Integration into clinical workflow remains a barrier to realizing the benefits of remote heart failure monitoring technologies. A workflow redesign program was conducted at 27 cardiology sites to improve implementation of heart failure remote monitoring with HeartLogic. Device data was retrospectively retrieved from HeartLogic-capable ICDs and CRT-Ds for the 12-month periods before and after re-design. Workflow redesign led to a decrease in HeartLogic enablement time (28±110 to 10±31 days, p<0.0001) and reduction in delayed data transmissions (10% to 6%). The number of HeartLogic alert onsets per year was unchanged; however, the length of individual alerts decreased from pre- to post-redesign (47.6±38.4 to 44.1±36.5 days, p=0.001) as did the percentage of time patients spent in alert (15.5±19.9% to 14.3±19.0%, p=0.04). The maximum HeartLogic index values per alert were also lower post-redesign (28.9±12.8 vs 27.8±12.1, p=0.001). Workflow redesign improved remote monitoring utilization and heart failure alert metrics.
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