Abstract
This paper examines the home monitoring system used in our Department of Cardiology in the Future Internet Social Technological Alignment in Healthcare (FI-STAR) project - a project focused on secondary prevention in cardiology (www.fi-star.eu). The system used is composed of bluetooth capable medical devices that collect vital parameters though CardioStar application (an application that was developed in collaboration with computer engineers. The collected data are transmitted in real time to a central server in our hospital, where there is a continuous supervision of the parameters. We evaluated this system in order to prove its use in reducing the cardiovascular risk and increasing the adherence to the life-style changes. 
 This paper presents the analysis of the MAST (Model for Assessment of Telemedicine) evaluation - which is the best way of evaluation for the telemedicine solutions - from the professional point of view. The questionnaires of evaluation were performed anonymous on a online platform. The application passed successfully the MAST evaluation, demonstrating that the developed telemedicine system designed for our cardiac patients fulfills its purpose in the secondary prevention.
Highlights
Our Department of Cardiology from the Emergency Hospital`Bagdasar-Arseni` within the University of Medicine and Pharmacy`Carol-Davila`, Bucharest, started a vast FP7 project at the beginning of the 2013, through we tested a telemedicine solution for the home rehabilitation of the patients who suffered an acute cardiovascular event
This paper presents the analysis of the MAST (Model for Assessment of Telemedicine) evaluation - which is the best way of evaluation for the telemedicine solutions - from the professional point of view
The home monitoring systems were proved to be a motivational factor for the primary prevention to the persons who have risk factors to develop a cardiovascular disease and, an important motivational factor for the secondary prevention for those who already suffer of a cardiac disease and who want to prevent its complications, or to rehabilitate after an acute cardiovascular event
Summary
We developed a mobile application – CardioStar – that was designed for the Romanian speaking people and which is able to recognize the electronic devices that we offer to each patient for home monitoring of the vital parameters and to record them, and to transmit them to our central server from the hospital in real time (Fig. 1). This central server is supervised by a medical doctor all the time, so any medical problem can be approached in time (Fig. 2). Concerns over the privacy of the health information systems and the health communications devices are new and debated in the telemedicine field, because the telemedicine area is itself a new domain
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