Belgium HF
The project Belgium HF ( BELGIUM HF = Better Efficacy in Lowering events by General practitioner’s Intervention Using remote Monitoring in Heart Failure) is a long term project for the detection and follow-up of heartfailure.
Vitalsys takes care of the neccessary technology, gives her expertise and delivers the technologies that are vital for this project.
The research project will last 3 years. Initially, it will consist of the development of the protocol that will make it possible to detect the early signs of heartfailure. In a second fase this study will be focussed on the pro-active interaction with the general practitioner. He will take proper actions to reduce heart failure, in correspondance with the heart specialist.
The long-distance monitoring of heart failure should give a better view to the health strain of this pathology, that allows to identify the early signs of heart failure. The purpose is to reduce on time the frequency and period of time of the hospitalisation.
It is a fact that more than 40 percent of the patients are at risk to have a new hospitalisation within 6 months after the heart failure.
