• You Mi Hwang and Ji-Hoon Kim.
• Department of Cardiology, St.Vincent's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Jun 10; 101 (23): e29414e29414.

Background/AimsStudies showed that remote device monitoring reduced unnecessary outpatient visits and increased patient satisfaction. As there was no local research on remote monitoring (RM) in Korea, there was a lack of evidence for policy or insurance standards due to the lack of domestic data despite high demand by domestic arrhythmia experts. To establish the basis for patient satisfaction, economic efficiency, and safety of wireless monitoring, a survey-based study was planned.MethodsThis was a single-university hospital survey. The satisfaction index was evaluated using a questionnaire to investigate patient satisfaction in outpatient clinics, economic efficiency (measured as home-to-clinic time, waiting time, and actual clinic time), and demand for RM in patients with implantable cardiac devices. The questionnaire was adopted and modified from the Survey on Telehealth Patient Experience by Bas-Villalobos, 2006 (modified Korean version 2.0 by You Mi Hwang, 2020).ResultsSurveys were answered by 171 patients. The mean age of these patients was 71.2 ± 12.4 years. Based on the survey, home to clinic time was usually less than one h, mean waiting time in the hospital until clinic time ranged 42.6 ± 24.5 minutes, and mean clinic time ranged 3.1 ± 1.7 minutes. Based on the survey, patients favored RM over hospital visits with cardiac implantable electronic device follow-up mainly because of long travel times from home to clinic.ConclusionBased on the survey results, there is a clear need for RM in patients who have cardiac implantable electronic devices.Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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