Medical Economics October 23, 2024
The advent of telehealth and remote patient monitoring has created an opportunity to reassess how blood pressure control is measured and managed.
Hypertension control is very personal for me. Yet discussing health outcomes in terms of quality metrics and value-based measures can start to feel quite impersonal. We should remember that each of the individuals that make up those populations being measured may be deeply affected by their individual metrics and the related outcomes. When I was 10, my grandmother had a stroke while babysitting me. I was scurried to another room while EMS tended to her and took her to the hospital. She would have multiple strokes in the years that followed, all due to poorly controlled hypertension. I...