A Study of a Technology-enabled Disease Management Program to Reduce Hospitalizations for Heart Failure

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Acute myocardial infarction, PCI or CABG within 30 days before enrollment
• •2. Planned revascularization procedures, cardiac mechanical support implantation, cardiac transplantation, or other cardiac surgery within 30 days following study randomization.
• •3. Illness other than heart failure deemed the principal limitation to life expectancy or principal cause of disability
• •4. Severe angina as the principal cause of limitation
• •5. Uncorrected valvular disease, except where valvular regurgitation was considered to be secondary to severe left ventricular dilation, or where surgical correction is deemed excessively risky or declined by the patient.
• •6. Moderate to severe dementia such that unable to participate in disease management program
• •7. Severe visual or auditory disability such that unable to participate in disease management program
• •8. Hospice care
• •9. Listed for heart transplantation
• •10. No access to a working telephone
• •11. Homeless or no stable home environment
• •12. Not speaking a language in which the educational documents have been translated