Wearable patch monitors heart failure patients

Researchers have developed a wearable patch capable of tracking cardiac activity and examining the user's heart failure status.

Remote patient monitoring in those with compensated and decompensated heart failure is not a usual practice but could reduce hospital readmission and mortality rates. The patch has the basic abilities of an echocardiogram and seismocardiogram.

“Wearable technologies recording cardiac function and machine learning algorithms can assess compensated and decompensated HF states by analyzing cardiac response to submaximal exercise,” wrote lead study author Omer T. Inan, PhD. “These techniques can be tested in the future to track the clinical status of outpatients with HF and their response to pharmacological interventions.”

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