It was the aim of the TEN-HMS-Project to enhance a modular Telemonitoring-System for the medical care of chronically ill, elderly and disabled citizens. The benefit of telematic home-care support should be methodically proved and models for market-launch be prepared and tested. Research focused on three benefit-dimensions:
Medical outcome
Quality of Life
Impacts on the Health Care System (cost reduction)
The project started in January 2000. Patient recruitment started in June 2000 and continued into March 2002. Collection of patient follow-up data ended in November 2002. Data for more than cumulative 205,000 patient-days were collected. The main focus was on medical care for heart-failure patients; with a small pilot project on dialysis patients.