Mobile Apps Help Patients Manage Heart Failure

You don’t have to take our word for it. Multiple independent studies have demonstrated that mobile apps offering self-management functions can help benefit heart failure patients.

• Heart Failure-Smart Life: a randomized controlled trial of a mobile app for self-management in patients with heart failure
  “Mobile apps appear to benefit patients’ continuous self-management and health outcomes….”

• Mobile Health Self-management Interventions for Patients With Heart Failure: A Pilot Study
  “The mHealth groups had an overall decrease in most symptom severity and frequency, particularly shortness of breath.”

• Mobile health apps can help patients manage HF
  “Patients saw several benefits to using mobile health apps for HF management, according to study results presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.”

• The effect of mobile application-based technology use on medication compliance and modification of risk factors…
  “Mobile app technology not only improved treatment adherence, but also reduced adverse clinical cardiovascular outcomes.”

• Mobile health intervention improves physical activity, quality of life in HF, diabetes
  “Quality of life as assessed by the KCCQ score was better in the intervention arm compared with the standard care group….”

• Experiences of Using a Self-management Mobile App Among Individuals With Heart Failure: Qualitative Study
  “The mHealth app supported patient empowerment, resulting in better heart failure management and improved quality of life.”

• A Patient-Oriented App (ThessHF) to Improve Self-Care Quality in Heart Failure: From Evidence-Based Design to Pilot Study
  “A significant increase in the quality of self-care was noted….”

• A Mobile Health Intervention Supporting Heart Failure Patients and Their Informal Caregivers: A Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial
  “mHealth+CP may also decrease patients’ risk of HF exacerbations related to shortness of breath and sudden weight gains. mHealth+CP may improve quality of life among patients with greater depressive symptoms.”