Authors: José Antonio Cano Martín Borja MartínezPérez Isabel de la TorreDíez Miguel LópezCoronado
Publish Date: 2014/07/04
Volume: 38, Issue: 9, Pages: 96-
Abstract
Currently cardiovascular diseases are the deadliest diseases with a total of 17 million deaths worldwide Hence they are the focus of many mobile applications for smartphones and tablets This paper will assess the exante economic impact as well as will determine the costeffectiveness analysis that the use of one of this app CardioManager by patients with heart failure will have in a Spanish community Castile and Leon For this a costeffectiveness analysis using the hidden Markov model were performed in a hypothetical cohort of patients diagnosed with heart failure based on the information of epidemiological parameters and the costs derived from the management and care of heart failure patients by the Public Health Care System of Castile and Leon The costs of patient care were estimated from the perspective of the Ministry of Health of Spain using a discount rate of 3 Finally an estimation of the exante impact that would suppose the introduction of CardioManager in the Health Care System is performed It is concluded that the introduction of CardioManager may generate a 33 reduction in the cost of management and treatment of the disease This means that CardioManager may be able to save more than 9000 € per patient to the local Health Care System of Castile and Leon which can be translated in a saving of 031 of the total health expenditure of the region
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