Telemedicine service’s characteristics
| Variables | |
| Telemedicine programme duration | |
| Fixed-term telemedicine activity | 12% |
| Indefinite time telemedicine activity | 88% |
| Telemedicine ECG | |
| Prehospital ECG | 79% |
| In-hospital telemedicine ECG | 47% |
| Interhospital telemedicine ECG | 26% |
| Emergency room telemedicine ECG | 42% |
| Outpatients telemedicine ECG | 63% |
| Telemedicine ECG through pharmacies | 16% |
| Telemedicine ECG through general practitioners | 16% |
| Ambulatory monitoring | |
| Outpatients ECG monitoring | 37% |
| Through pharmacies | 26% |
| Through general practitioners | 16% |
| Outpatients blood pressure monitoring | |
| Through pharmacies | 21% |
| Through general practitioners | 16% |
| Remote heart failure monitoring | 37% |
| Vital signs remote monitoring | 21% |
| Telephone monitoring | 32% |
| Monitoring through dedicated devices | 16% |
| Telemedicine rehabilitation | |
| After heart surgery | 16% |
| After heart failure | 11% |
| Other forms of monitoring | |
| ICD/CRT-D monitoring | 42% |
| Mentoring | 11% |
| Reimbursement | |
| Reimbursed by national healthcare system | 69% |
| Paid by the patient | 25% |
| Funding | |
| State funding | 17% |
| European Union funding | 17% |
| Private funding | 11% |
| No funding | 50% |