Mobile Application for Patient Engagement and Physician-Directed Remote Management of Heart Failure: The ENGAGE-HF Study
The ENGAGE-HF mobile application tracks three key features over time: (1) heart failure health status, (2) vital signs (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate) and weight, and (3) the quality of heart failure medication therapy. Helping patients understand how these characteristics interact and change over time may improve their ability to understand and manage heart failure. In this study, the investigators aim to evaluate whether the ENGAGE-HF mobile application, by facilitating the behavior change strategies of self-monitoring and feedback, and a clinician-facing dashboard, improves the optimization of heart failure guideline-directed medical therapies (GDMT) and quality of life. An optional sub-study of cognitive function will invite all eligible participants enrolled in the main study to participate.
• Diagnosis of heart failure
• Last left ventricular ejection fraction within 2 years \< 50% based on echocardiogram, MRI, CT, or nuclear perfusion and, if no ejection fraction documented, then clinical documentation of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
• Currently admitted with upcoming discharge or discharged from hospital within the prior 4 weeks
• At least two eligible heart failure therapies (guideline-recommended BB, RASI, MRA, or SGLT2i) not yet initiated or at \< 50% of target dose at time of enrollment