JACC. Heart failure
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JACC. Heart failure · Apr 2017
ReviewMoving Beyond the Walls of the Clinic: Opportunities and Challenges to the Future of Telehealth in Heart Failure.
Telehealth offers an innovative approach to improve heart failure care that expands beyond traditional management strategies. Yet the use of telehealth in heart failure is infrequent because of several obstacles. ⋯ Ultimately, when implementation is reasonable, the application of these efforts remains hampered by regulatory, reimbursement, and other policy issues. The primary aim of this paper is to describe these challenges and to outline a path forward to apply telehealth approaches to heart failure in conjunction with payment reform and pragmatic research study design.