[Personal Telemonitoring: Perspectives of Development in Arhythmology and Cardiology]

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) persists as one of challenging problems in cardiology and cardiac surgery, only in Russia costing more than 350,000 deaths annually. Arrhythmias and ischemic heart disease (IHD) prevail as SCD immediate direct mechanisms. Unfortunately, timely diagnostics of heart diseases is far below the satisfactory level. On the other hand, the number of patients to be followed up is increasing faster than the healthcare capacity. To close the gap, new approaches to diagnostics and prophylaxis of cardiovascular diseases are needed, involving innovative medical technologies. Implantable and external devices for heart arrhythmia and CAD early diagnostics are extensively used in modern cardiologic praxis. Impetuous development of this technique in combination with information and telecommunication technologies during last decade led to origination of completely new medical service based on mobile remote monitoring of patients. Relying on the experience in remote patient monitoring with implantable devices for recording heart electrical activity, Russian Scientific Society.