Health @ Home: A telecare system for patients with chronic heart failure

This paper aims to show the necessity, requirements and development of an affordable monitoring and telecare system for patients with chronic heart failure. It presents Health @ Home
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, a project partly co-funded by the European Ambient Assisted Living Programme (AAL) which has the purpose to provide an integral solution for the societal problems related to the provision of healthcare services for elderly citizens affected by chronic heart failure.