HEARTPHONE

HeartPhone is a system devised to help CHF patients actively participate in managing their own condition accurately, is being developed at NDRC (National Digital Research Centre) as a collaboration between Dr Mark Ledwidge and Professor Ken McDonald of St Vincent’s University Hospital and Crofton Cardiac Systems, BiancaMed Ltd, NDRC and UCD (University College Dublin). The HeartPhone product is a technology-based connected healthcare solution. Each patient is provided with a Bluetooth enabled weighing scales. By using the scales daily in their own home the patients’ weight data will be automatically transferred by mobile phone to the hospital for analysis by a cardiac clinician.