AJMC May 9, 2022
In this study, investigators from Pennsylvania and New York evaluated outcomes among patients following their hospitalization for heart failure (HF) who did or did not participate in a remote monitoring program that included financial incentives for adherence.
Neither mortality rate nor hospital readmission rate were positively affected by a 1-year remote monitoring program among individuals with a history of hospitalization for heart failure (HF), according to EMPOWER study findings published online today in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The patients with a HF diagnosis could have HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) or HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), and the program included $1.40/day financial incentives in the form of a regret lottery (“people are notified whether they won or would have...
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