A mobile health application improved the use and dosing of recommended medications for patients with heart failure, according to a new study.
The application prompts patients to enter health measurements, including blood pressure, heart rate and weight and track their symptoms.
It also helps patients see whether their heart failure medications are at recommended levels for them based on their clinical data.
Clinicians had access to a dashboard showing patients' data from the app, which alerted them to changes in health status between and before clinic visits.
After 90 days, the intervention group had a medication optimization score of 83.7%, compared with 74% for the usual care group — a difference of nearly 10 percentage points.
The research was presented as late breaking science at the 2026 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions and published in Circulation: Heart Failure, a peer-reviewed journal of the AHA.
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