Abstract 13: Consistent Remote Monitoring of Patients With Heart Failure Using Epxheartfailure: A Telemedicine Tool

Introduction: Heart failure (HF) is among the most common reasons for hospital admissions, presenting a significant cost burden to the medical system. Patients are monitored at the hospital but often go home without enough long-term management. Chronic care involving consistent symptom monitoring and patient-provider communication is essential to HF management. Though careful management can improve patient quality of life and reduce hospital readmission costs, it may be time consuming and expensive. To address this, we created a SMS text-based platform, EpxHeartFailure (EpxHF), which allows for remote patient monitoring. Our novel platform seeks to improve chronic care management by simplifying patient self-care and patient-provider communication. The goal of this low-cost intervention is to gain patient and provider acceptability and improve patient symptom stability. Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of a commercial implementation of EpxHF. Data was collected from patients over a 30-week tria...