Cardiopulmonary Outpatient Rehabilitation Using Mobile Technology

Empowering Individuals Post-Cardiopulmonary Outpatient Rehabilitation to Continue to Live a Heart Healthy Lifestyle: Utilizing Mobile Health Technology

This is a randomized controlled trial of the feasibility and utility of implementing a smartphone application (MVN) to maintain compliance with a Heart Healthy lifestyle after discharge from a cardiac outpatient rehabilitation program. Patients will be randomized into one of two groups: usual care (control: UC) or Movn mobile application (intervention: MVN). This study will improve and strengthen data collection from this at-risk patient population by recording baseline clinical and psycho social measures while gaining insight into self-reporting of physical activity and frequency between the UC and MVN groups.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Current participants in The Joan and Joel Smilow Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention Center (JJCRPC) of Rusk Rehabilitation Patient within two weeks of completing outpatient cardiac rehabilitation
• Clinically stable: moderate to low risk strata by standardized clinical assessment
• Clinically stable: moderate to low risk strata by standardized clinical assessment
• no infections
• no unstable arrhythmias, aortic stenosis, thrombophlebitis, dissecting aneurysm or symptomatic anemia
• controlled blood pressure-resting diastolic <100 mmHg, systolic <180mmHg
• no uncompensated heart failure NYHA Class 3-4
• stable angina (no chest pain for month)
• no 2nd or 3rd degree heart block
• no uncontrolled high grade exercise induced ventricular ectopy-hemodynamically stable
• Own an iPhone (version 3 or above), an iPad, or an iPod touch (version 4 or higher) or Android phone or tablet
• Ability to use and comfortable with using mobile health technology to monitor physical and psychosocial health
• Is comfortable using mobile applications
• English language fluency
• Ability to provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who do not fulfill all inclusion criteria stated above.