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European Journal of Heart Failure 2009 11(3):227-228; doi:10.1093/eurjhf/hfp027
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2009. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Telemonitoring for heart failure: the only feasible option for good universal care?

John G.F. Cleland*, Christian Lewinter and Kevin M. Goode

Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Disease, University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, UK

* Corresponding author: MRTDS Building, Castle Hill Hospital, Castle Road, Kingston upon Hull HU16 5JQ, UK. Tel: +44 1482 461776, Fax: +44 1482 461779, Email: j.g.cleland@hull.ac.uk

This editorial refers to ‘A randomized trial of home telemonitoring in a typical elderly heart failure population in North West London: results of the Home-HF study’{dagger} by Owais Dar et al., on page 319 and‘Home telemonitoring in heart failure patients: the HHH study (Home or Hospital in Heart failure)’{ddagger} by Andrea Mortara et al., on page 312

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Telecare will become the preferred method for managing most long-term medical conditions and this revolution may well be as seismic for health care as the industrial revolution was to Western economies 200 years ago. When and how this revolution will occur is not yet clear. The change will be driven by the increasing numbers of patients with long-term conditions because of the triad of: earlier diagnosis, longer survival after diagnosis and population ageing. This increasing prevalence of chronic illness will occur in the context of fewer people of working age who may be reluctant to pay the higher taxes required in order to fulfil all of society's needs. Increasing expectations from care, increasingly complex but effective treatment, improved sensors that detect more problems and ubiquitous, secure, familiar means of telecommunications, will create new incentives and pressures to deliver more expert . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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