Economic Modeling of Heart Failure Telehealth Programs: When Do They Become Cost Saving?

Figure 1

Schematic of a home-based telehealth program for monitoring CHF patients. Note that TEST includes one or more of the monitoring measures: activity monitoring, biomarker monitoring, questionnaires, and symptom monitoring; TREAT includes one or more of the following: case manager reviewing data, telephone triage, physicians’ initiation of medication package, and nurse home visit (if needed).