M2M - Heart Monitoring trial results are in
So the results are out from the Remote heart Monitoring trail run by Guidant/Boston Scientific. First reported here.
The LATITUDE Patient Management system can detect clinical events between scheduled follow-up visits and then send the clinical event data directly to physicians. The system basically monitors key heart parameters and send it over to a central server for monitoring - this data can be viewed and acted upon by the Caregiver.
Key numbers
* 15,000 patients participated.
* Monitored Months - 106,000
* Duration - 7 Months
* Irregular Heart Beats Detected - 948 (sustained over 24 hours)
* 1,516 i.e 10% of the trial population had reactive treatment based on the data collected.
THe numbers are a lot better than I expected coming out of this trial. The possibilities are endless - the system will be a enormous cost saver if we ensure that the data collected is actionable, privacy and security concerns are accounted for.
The market for these types of system will expand as the population ages and grows older..