Patient Engagement with a Mobile Web-Based Telemonitoring System for Heart Failure Self-Management: A Pilot Study

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Zan, Shiyi ^a,b   Agboola, Stephen ^a,b,c   Moore, Stephanie A ^b,c   Parks, Kimberly A ^b,c   Kvedar, Joseph C ^a,b,c   Jethwani, Kamal ^a,b,c  

^a PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease self management; Heart failure; Interactive voice response system; Mobile health; Patient engagement; Quality of life; Remote monitoring; Telemonitoring; Web portal

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031986536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.3789     Document Type: Article

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