A-SPIRE Heart Failure: Utilizing Health Tags to Identify Patients at Risk for Hospital Readmissions

Over 5 million Americans suffer from heart failure (HF), and treating HF as a chronic condition is associated with significant costs. In addition, about 24% of the patients discharged with a primary diagnosis of HF are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days, representing a significant public health burden. While there have been efforts to predict and reduce 30-day hospital readmission initiated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), no studies utilized daily physiologic data from wearables to identify at-risk patients.

The overall goal of this proposed pilot feasibility study is to utilize the Spire Health Tags in a heart failure patient population to ascertain the feasibility of capturing appropriate signals of respiration, pulse rate, activity, sleep patterns, and stress levels (calm/focused/tense during the day) for > 80% of the time in patients following HF hospitalization for a 30-day period. The investigators will do exploratory analysis of the changes in these physiologic variables during a 30-day period following HF hospitalization to identify risk markers that could predict 30-day readmission.