Patient Compliance with and Attitudes Towards Health Buddy

This report addresses patient acceptance of Health Buddy, a device used to communicate between patients chronically ill with congestive heart failure (CHF) and a health care provider in a case management program. The Health Buddy is placed in the patient's home and provides daily monitoring if the patient responds daily to short surveys. Data on 150 CHF patients suggest a high level of acceptance and use of Health Buddy. All received the device and responded to at least one survey. 23 dropped out after responding to only one or two surveys. The reasons given were because they moved out of the area or changed doctors or health plans, not because they disliked the device. The remainder (127 patients) responded to the surveys almost every day. Most of them reported that they liked using the Health Buddy and found it very helpful.Bigelow, James H. is the author of 'Patient Compliance with and Attitudes Towards Health Buddy', published 2007 under ISBN 9780833028945 and ISBN 0833028944.