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Poll Suggests Benefits from Monitoring One’s Blood Pressure
The University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI), https://ihpi.umich.edu, which describes itself as “the nation’s largest university-based group of health services researchers,” conducted a poll on healthy aging in January, 2021. The...
RPM v. COVID
Civic Telehealth focuses on enabling those with a variety of chronic conditions, as well as healthy people wishing to focus more carefully on their well-being generally to get access to remote patient monitoring (“RPM,” also sometimes called remote physiologic...
RPM in Congestive Heart Failure
In congestive heart failure (CHF), the heart is unable to pump out to the body all the blood returned to it by the veins. Doctors say the heart has lost some of its “contractility.” As a result, blood tends to back up into the chest, where it can interfere with...
Remote Patient Monitoring for High Blood Pressure
As one of my professors used to say, high blood pressure (“HBP”, or hypertension), is “common as pig tracks in south Georgia.” Although estimates vary, most students of the subject agree that nearly one-half of adult Americans have elevated blood pressure, and many do...
A surprising pandemic side effect: People are more engaged with their health
For all the harm it has done, the pandemic may not have been all bad. It seems to have encouraged more people to take more responsibility for and control over their own care, and to have educated themselves more thoroughly not only with respect to COVID but in...
Efficacy of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
As we have considered elsewhere (click here to read that article), hypertension, or high blood pressure (HBP), is the most prevalent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Only about half of adult Americans with HBP have it under adequate control. One reason the...
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