• To promote early, rapid and effective rehabilitation of heart patients so that they can return to their everyday life and work.
• To research heart patients and their families as actors in their own rehabilitation process with the use of new technology.
• To research the implementation of a telerehabilitation program on a larger scale viewed in an inter-organizational perspective.
• To assess the health economic potentials of implementing a telerehabilitation program for heart patients across the cardiological and cardio-surgical specialties, sectors and municipal boundaries.

The target group are patients with heart conditions, heart attack or patients who have had a heart valve surgery at Aalborg University Hospital. Patients must reside in Hjørring or Frederikshavn municipalities and be 18 years or older. The goal is to have 228 heart patients participating in a randomized trial.

Henning has just returned home from the hospital following a heart attack. At the hospital, he received a large amount of information about his condition, and he has had some trouble remembering it all. While he was hospitalized, he had some questions that he did not ask. Now that Henning has come home, the situation is a more relaxed, and he has some unanswered questions. He therefore logs on to www.aktivthjerte.dk on his tablet device, where he can find general information about his illness in the form of images, text and sound. For example, there are video segments where other heart patients talk about their experiences. Henning is comforted knowing that he is not alone with the problems that he has. Henning also has the option of accessing his e-rehabilitation plan, where he can view his personalized schedule for his rehabilitation along with his measured blood pressure level, pulse, weight and stride.Henning is somewhat unsure about how much he can move around. He therefore uses the e-rehabilitation plan to contact the health center physiotherapist, who is familiar with Henning and his condition. Henning receives a quick reply via the e-rehabilitation plan and now feels more confident to carry out his daily physical activities. Henning's wife, Gitte, would also like to know more about Henning's disease. She also uses the e-rehabilitation plan, where she reads about the disease, medication, diet and exercise. Gitte has also contacted the health center via the e-rehabilitation plan.She was a bit nervous that Henning was doing too many things during the day and whether he was getting enough rest. Through the e-rehabilitation plan, she was able to reach a nurse and have her questions answered.