Home Remote Monitoring Care for People With Heart Failure
Compares home telemonitoring with usual care in adults with heart failure.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Evalutation of a Hybrid Care Pathway With Remote MONitoring for Heart Failure
Key facts
- Where
- Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Enschede, Groningen, Nieuwegein, Nijmegen, and Rotterdam, NetherlandsSee the 7 sites
Where in Netherlands
- OLVGAmsterdam, NetherlandsTaking people
- Catharina hospitalEindhoven, NetherlandsTaking people
- Medisch Spectrum TwenteEnschede, NetherlandsTaking people
- Martini HospitalGroningen, NetherlandsTaking people
- St. Antonius HospitalNieuwegein, NetherlandsTaking people
- Canisius-Wilhelmina HospitalNijmegen, NetherlandsTaking people
- Maasstad HospitalRotterdam, NetherlandsTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- St. Antonius Hospital
- Trial code
- NCT07680634
- Record updated
- 2 July 2026
- Original description
Heart failure is a long-term condition in which the heart cannot pump blood as well as it should. People with heart failure often need to be admitted to hospital when their symptoms suddenly get worse, which affects their quality of life and places a heavy burden on the healthcare system.Read full original descriptionShow less
Evalutation of a Hybrid Care Pathway With Remote MONitoring for Heart Failure
Heart failure is a long-term condition in which the heart cannot pump blood as well as it should. People with heart failure often need to be admitted to hospital when their symptoms suddenly get worse, which affects their quality of life and places a heavy burden on the healthcare system.
In recent years, hospitals have started using home telemonitoring, in which patients measure values such as their weight, blood pressure, heart rate, and symptoms at home every day. These measurements are sent to a Medical Service Center (MSC), who can step in quickly when early warning signs appear - often before the patient feels seriously unwell.
The HARMONY-HF study looks at how well this hybrid care pathway works in everyday practice. The researchers will compare heart failure patients who take part in the home telemonitoring programme with patients who receive usual care without telemonitoring, across seven hospitals in the Netherlands. Because all care is part of routine treatment, patients are not asked to do anything extra for the study; the researchers use information that is already collected during normal care.
The main goal is to find out whether patients in the telemonitoring programme spend more days at home and out of the hospital. The study also looks at survival, hospital admissions, quality of life, and the use of recommended heart failure medication. The findings will help determine whether this approach should be offered more widely.
Inclusion: Adults (at least 18 years or older); Diagnosed with heart failure according the prevailling ESC guideline; Treatment at the outpatient clinic at one of the seven participating hospitals; Sufficient digital literacy and adequate Dutch language proficiency by the patient or throught the informal caregiver.
Exclusion: Patients with end-stage heart failure or other terminal conditions; Inability or unwillingness to participate in home telemonitoring.