Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), a Partners Healthcare teaching hospital, has selected iGetBetter for a pilot for patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The iGetBetter cloud-based platform bridges transition of care from hospital to home, engaging patients in their own care, thus improving outcomes and helping to reduce readmissions.

Cardiologists at BWH will use the iGetBetter system to monitor HCM patients and communicate their care plan instructions to them via mobile devices. These clinicians will use data from biometric devices provided by Withings, along with patients’ self-reported data, to adjust their medications for optimal efficacy, and intervene if necessary to avoid hospital admissions or unnecessary office visits and reduce costs.

“For the first time, we will be using daily patient biometric readings coupled with daily subjective inputs from patients about possible cardiac symptoms to titrate medication levels to maximum desired levels remotely without the need for multiple outpatient office visits,” said David Lebudzinski, MD, iGetBetter’s Chief Medical Officer. “This potentially represents a major improvement for these hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients who will be brought up to desired medication doses faster than ever, achieving a level of therapeutic safety much faster than in the past. This should improve their quality of life and reduce their risk for adverse cardiac events very quickly.”

Also participating in this pilot is Withings, which is donating Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure cuffs and activity monitors for use in the pilot. The company’s self-tracking tools can help self-manage and prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma or hypertension.