Heart failure poses a large burden on patients and healthcare, largely because heart failure patients have low fitness and require frequent hospitalisation for close monitoring. In CardiacCare@Home, researchers work together with patients, doctors, industry, and others to develop technology for home-based monitoring of cardiac function and rehabilitation. This approach facilitates early detection of worsening of cardiac function, which allows doctors to rapidly alter treatment and prevent hospitalisation. Moreover, home-based rehabilitation will improve patients’ fitness levels. Technological innovations will facilitate a new care path that improves patients’ quality of life and lower socio-economic costs, and lower burden for hospital staff.

Everyday sounds like speech, respirations, and heartbeats contain valuable clues about our health. This project develops collaborative and privacy-preserving AI to securely analyze audio captured from globally distributed consumer devices like phones and smart speakers to monitor wellbeing. This lets devices detect health issues while ensuring privacy, fairness, and safety.