State of Art of the French Telemedicine Projects in the Field of Chronic Heart Failure

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"The rising prevalence of chronic disease like chronic heart failure (CHF) combined with population aging now represents a very real problem for public health. In France, between 120 000 and 150 000 new cases are diagnosed every year. The cost of this chronic disease has rocketed, and is estimated at several billion dollars in developed countries. The management of CHF patients is a challenge for healthcare professionals. Their needs eat up large amounts of medical resources, just as a shortage in the time careers can provide is beginning to be felt, with medical deserts and a lack of access to healthcare professionals, among other problems. CHF remains a serious disease in terms of their functional or survival prognosis, and morbidity and mortality are high . Thus, the mortality rate of CHF patients with NYHA stage III-IV is 50% at 5 years (although closer to 30% in more recent studies) . In this setting, CHF patients frequently present for emergency hospitalization and re-hospitalization. CHF is responsible for more than 100 000 hospitalizations per year in France. It accounts for 5% of all hospitalizations and is the main cause of hospitalization among elderly subjects. Some of these hospitalizations could be avoided if patients have a better followed . This last point has been particularly well documented in CHF. In this setting, telemedicine may be of really aid. Indeed telemedicine may even optimize the management of such chronic disease, particularly by preventing emergency and repeat hospitalizations..." En bref issu de l'étude.