Ongoing

Virtual Cardiac Rehabilitation: Development and initial user testing

This project was geared towards the development of a comprehensive, individually tailored cardiac rehabilitation program that can be delivered to hospital outpatients in their home.

Project Details

STATUS

Ongoing

START

2021

END

2024

Principal Investigators

Categories

Clinical Themes

“TeleClinical Care – Exercise (TCC-Exercise)” is a smartphone application which connects to peripheral health monitoring devices, and remotely administers a personally tailored exercise rehabilitation program, including aerobic and dynamic resistive exercises to patients who have recently experienced a major cardiovascular event. It will contribute to the transformation away from the hospital-based model of care to community-based care and result in lasting health benefits by increasing physical activity levels and self-management of cardiovascular health. The ultimate goal is to integrate the virtual cardiac rehabilitation into one complete user-experience. The proposed virtual cardiac rehabilitation program (TCC-CR) will address issues beyond the unmet need associated with physical distancing during the pandemic.

Through the TCC-Cardiac trials, positive impacts on patient wellbeing were observed. Patients became more aware of their health and much better at self-care, including taking medication regularly. In the future, the virtual care service and remote monitoring team will migrate to a TCC-Heart Failure implementation based on current TCC-Cardiac learnings. It is anticipated that this will become business as usual within SESLHD.
TCC-Exercise will be used as part of the TCC-Cardiac trial, which is funded by NSW Health through a grant known as the NSW Translational Research/ Health Innovation Grant (2021 to 2024).

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