The average human heart beats four million times per year and pumps enough blood to fill a modern oil supertanker during a lifetime. However, over time some individuals may experience damage to cardiac muscles for a variety of reasons, such as plaque buildup in the arteries, heart attacks, or infections. This condition is known as congestive heart failure, a chronic disease with alternating periods of worsening and stability, with minimal recovery. Half of patients with CHF will die within five years of their diagnosis.1 Treatment often includes a number of medications and lifestyle modifications such as reduced sodium intake and daily physical activity. This unpredictable nature and variation in severity of symptoms significantly impacts the patient׳s use of health care services, the intensity of their care, and can often contribute to preventable hospital readmissions and mortality rates.