In order to stem the health risks and excessive expenses borne by the health system “it is urgent, in the short term, that full awareness of the need to structure a care response for the management of complex and chronic patients, such as those suffering from heart failure, a pathology that in Italy affects about 1 million people for an annual cost of 3 billion euros, starting from personalized patient care programs through the identification and stratification of risk, definition of the references for sending to the specialist or to the territory, a new method of follow-up and the introduction of remote monitoring “. He said it Pasquale Perrone Filardi, elected president of the Italian Society of Cardiology (Sic), speaking at the event “New cardiovascular prevention strategies in the post-pandemic: the challenge starts from the territory”.
The expert focused attention on the heart failure, the leading cause of hospitalization in people over 65.