Innovative ‘heart failure at home’ service empowers cardiac patients

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00:01Hello Sally. Hi thank you for coming today. Our Febris technology is a

00:07partnership with BT Innovation and the local trust and to allow us to provide

00:13a technological approach to allowing patients to manage their conditions. We

00:16began Febris in October 2024 and we wanted to provide patients with

00:21technology and equipment that allows them to monitor their condition at home

00:25empowering them to make changes to their management and also contact

00:29us if they have any concerns. Through the system we get twice weekly reports from

00:34each patient allowing them to report any signs that have developed, any new

00:39symptoms that have developed and we review this twice weekly and then can make

00:43changes to the patient management preventing them coming to hospital but

00:47also providing them with reassurance that we're able to monitor their condition.

00:51For those patients eligible for the service we would issue them with a kit

00:54that includes a mobile telephone device and blood pressure cuff, saturations probe

01:01and a set of scales and they all connect through Bluetooth technology and a data

01:06card which then allows data to be transmitted centrally back to Lagan Valley

01:10where we can review it. Within the Febris team my role would be to review the

01:14data twice a week and if there's any issues with the data I would then ring them and

01:20follow it up. If I'm worried about the patient and I'll bring them to clinic.

01:24It's actually very good, it's quickening up our process of filtering through the

01:29data and the data is presented on the scales and on charts and we can see the

01:34trend. It takes away the time involved in clinic appointments. We're finding our

01:40relationship with the patients is becoming better because they feel more at

01:45ease using this mechanism to present the data. It provides a lot of empowerment to

01:52the patient to allow them to look after their condition and through the technology

01:56with patients being able to report how they feel and provide messages to the

02:00team here and it makes them much more in control of the condition. The biggest key

02:04factor for me is watching the patients and you know jump on board and get

02:09involved with this. If patients can be managed in their own home or can be

02:12managed in an ambulatory centre that is our preference.