Usability of a telehealth-nurse supported home-based walking training for peripheral arterial disease - The Keep Pace! pilot study.

: Guidelines recommend walking trainings for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) management. Supervised walking training is superior to walking advise to improve the walking distance. Telehealth service with nurse support may close this gap.

Towards an Electronic Health Prevention Record Based on HL7 FHIR and the OMOP Common Data Model.

Background: Approximately 40% of all recorded deaths in Austria are due to behavioral risks. These risks could be avoided with appropriate measures.

Objectives: Extension of the concept of EHR and EMR to an electronic prevention record, focusing on primary and secondary prevention.

Health data space nodes for privacy-preserving linkage of medical data to support collaborative secondary analyses.

Introduction: The potential for secondary use of health data to improve healthcare is currently not fully exploited. Health data is largely kept in isolated data silos and key infrastructure to aggregate these silos into standardized bodies of knowledge is underdeveloped. We describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of a federated infrastructure to facilitate versatile secondary use of health data based on Health Data Space nodes.

Cost-effectiveness of a multidimensional post-discharge disease management program for heart failure patients-economic evaluation along a one-year observation period.

Objective: This study aimed to assess the cost-effectiveness of the telemedically assisted post-discharge management program (DMP) HerzMobil Tirol (HMT) for heart failure (HF) patients in clinical practice in Austria.

Methods: We conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis along a retrospective cohort study (2016-2019) of HMT with a propensity score matched cohort of 251 individuals in the HMT and 257 in the usual care (UC) group and a 1-year follow-up. We calculated the effectiveness (hospital-free survival, hospital-free life-years gained, and number of avoided rehospitalizations), costs (HMT, rehospitalizations), and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER).

Towards a Verification Approach of a Smart Registry for Chronic Heart Failure Patients.

Background: The daily increasing amount of health data from different sources like electronic medical records and telehealth systems go hand in hand with the ongoing development of novel digital and data-driven analytics. Unifying this in a privacy-preserving data aggregation infrastructure can enable services for clinical decision support in personalized patient therapy.

Objectives: The goal of this work was to consider such an infrastructure, implemented in a smart registry for heart failure, as a comparative method for the analysis of health data.