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Personalized Voice Activated Wellness Assistants for Patients With Heart Failure

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MedStar Health

Status

Completed

Conditions

Heart Failure
Congestive Heart Failure

Treatments

Other: Standard of Care Arm
Device: Alexa+

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
NIH

Identifiers

NCT03707275
UL1TR001409 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
Alexa+ Study

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Alexa+ Study will compare the use of the Amazon Echo Dot with Alexa voice technology in patients with chronic heart failure to those receiving standard of care heart failure management on changes in health and patient-centered outcomes.

Full description

Integrating data from virtual voice activated assistants (Amazon Echo Dot with Alexa voice technology), with the rich medical history available in Electronic Health Records (EHR) will allow a truly customized, interactive, and automated personal healthcare assistant. This technology will be validated in patients who have chronic heart failure (HF). Half of the study patients will receive an Amazon Echo Dot (Alexa) enhanced with a HF Care custom Alexa Skill that is patient-specific, or Alexa+. Data on patient interactions with the device will be followed for three months. The control groups will receive standard of care (SOC) HF management. Both study and control groups will receive regular follow up from the HF nurse and data from all hospital or clinic visits will be captured from the EHR.

Enrollment

50 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Heart failure patients seen at the MedStar heart failure clinic and the MedStar Washington Hospital Center inpatient heart failure service
  • At least 18 years of age
  • Have access to in-home Wi-Fi

Exclusion criteria

  • Participation in another interventional clinical trial

Trial design

Primary purpose

Other

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

50 participants in 2 patient groups

Alexa+ Arm
Experimental group
Treatment:
Device: Alexa+
Standard of Care Arm
Other group
Treatment:
Other: Standard of Care Arm

Trial contacts and locations

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