title: Remote follow-up and continuous remote monitoring, distinguished.
abstract: Remote device management involves remote follow-up (which replace periodic in-clinic device interrogations for assessing device function), remote monitoring (with unscheduled transmissions of alerts such as atrial fibrillation), and patient-initiated interrogations (that are initiated manually due to a perceived or real clinical event). This article overviews the different aspects related to these functions.
authors.affiliation: Electrophysiology Unit, University Hospital of Geneva, Rue Perret-Gentil 4, Geneva 14, Switzerland. haran.burri@hcuge.ch
authors.forename: Haran
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Burri
mesh_terms: D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable / Q000592:standards*; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000592:standards*; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis / Q000592:standards; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011358:Product Surveillance, Postmarketing / Q000592:standards*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000592:standards*; D009626:Terminology as Topic
keywords: Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Pacemaker; Remote device management; Remote follow-up; Remote monitoring; Telemedicine