Table 1.

Ambulatory technologies in heart failure.

Options	Tools	Evidence	Notes	Novel Considerations
Software (Health IT)	Clinical decision support. Computerized disease registries. Computerized provider order entry. Consumer health IT applications. Electronic medical record systems (EMRs, EHRs, and PHRs). Electronic prescribing. Telehealth.	Clinically utilised (no new evidence needed)	Licensing Cost Maintenance Cross over	Universal integrated and shared health services information.
	Software and Programs.	Variable	Apps Website Social Networking	Health policy advancements.
Hardware	Implantable Therapeutic Devices. Implantable Monitoring Devices. Monitoring Devices (e.g 24hr Holter).	I A II B IA	PPM, AICD, CRT	Increasing features of implantable therapeutic devices to monitoring.
	Mobile Phone. Computing Devices.	1 A communication Monitoirng and treatment variable	Communication	Home health hubs.

Abbreviations: AICD - Automated implantable cardiac defibrillator; CRT – cardiac resynchronisation therapies. Cardiac Permanent Pacemaker.