Validation of a flexible and innovative platform for the home monitoring of heart failure patients: Preliminary results

During the clinical validation of HEARTFAID, a platform of services for the medical-clinical management of heart failure (HF) in elderly subjects, performed in several European sites, special attention was paid to test Nurse@Home (N@H), a flexible and innovative application for the home monitoring of HF patients. This paper is focused on the validation performed in the sites of Catanzaro and Milan, Italy.

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