Lilly Branham received scary news when her doctor told her that her life was at risk because her heart muscles were extremely weak. Like estimated 5 million Americans, Lilly suffers from a life threatening disease called Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body’s demand for oxygen.

But like a growing number of patients, she has learned it’s possible to manage her condition with proper diet, medication, and exercise -- along with the help of an IT solution, Soarian® Disease Management from Siemens Medical Solutions.
This solution enables clinicians at the South Carolina Heart Center to discover small, early symptoms before the onset of a crisis by enabling regular communication between physicians, nurses and their CHF patients. In the past, clinicians say they often wouldn’t find out a CHF patient’s condition had deteriorated until they were rushed to the emergency room. Proactive management of CHF patients through Soarian has helped reduce patient admissions and trips to the emergency room at South Carolina Heart Center.

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