Heart failure algorithms for remote monitoring in people with cardiac implantable electronic devices

Overview

People with decompensating heart failure (HF) have traditionally been asked to contact their HF team or seek medical attention for worsening symptoms, but this often happens too late, or people do not recognise these symptoms at all. However, by adopting remote monitoring technologies with an algorithm that can alert clinical teams to people at high risk, preventable hospitalisations can be potentially avoided. The TriageHF Plus pathway was developed in 2016 as an early warning system that combines HF alerts from cardiac devices with a structured phone-based assessment by a HF specialist.