A real-world evaluation of technology enabled care (TEC) for the remote monitoring of heart failure patients in West Wales.

Heart failure (HF) is a syndrome caused by impaired function of the heart to pump blood and results in substantial morbidity and poor survival rates (von Lueder & Agewall, 2018). HF is the primary diagnosis for more than 100,000 hospital admissions per year in the UK and is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality (BHF, 2020). Despite advancements in medicine, management of HF has been a challenge to health care providers, due to high rates of readmissions (Inamdar & Inamdar, 2016). Technology enabled care (TEC) is a collective term used to describe emerging technologiesand methods such as telehealth, telemedicine, digital and electronic health services. TEC is increasingly viewed as a potential solution to challenges facing modern healthcare such as increasing proportions of elderly persons with chronic diseases (Leonardsen et al., 2020). This report presents the findings of a real-world evaluation of a TEC service for the remote monitoring of HF in Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB), aimed at improvingHF management