Personalized Voice Activated Wellness Assistants for Patients With Heart Failure

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Heart Failure; Congestive Heart Failure
• Interventions: Device: Alexa+; Other: Standard of Care Arm

• Registration Number: NCT03707275
• Lead Sponsor: Medstar Health Research Institute

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-10-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-10-12
• Study First Posted: 2018-10-16
• Study Start: 2018-12-10
• Primary Completion: 2019-10-31
• Study Completion: 2019-10-31
• Status Verified: 2020-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-06-18
• Last Update Posted: 2020-06-19

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 50

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Alexa+ Arm	Alexa+	-
Standard of Care Arm	Standard of Care Arm	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in comfort level using Alexa+ technology as measured by the pre and post-test technology comfort survey	3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in number of hospitalizations as measured by hospitalization data extracted from the EHR	3 months
Change in medication adherence as measured by number of prescriptions filled extracted from the EHR	3 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

MedStar Washington Hospital Center; 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States