A new study has found that heart failure patients freshly released from the hospital who called in regularly to their doctor's office were just as likely to be readmitted to the hospital, suffer a heart attack or die as were those who received conventional care. According to Alfred Bove of Temple's School of Medicine, these findings are at odds with results from a similar telemonitoring study conducted by his group that found a significant reduction in hospital admissions. A key difference: In Bove's study a patient coordinator talked directly to the patients, whereas the new study used an automated system.