CES 2022 | Topic 03
Remote Patient Monitoring Goes Global
OMRON Healthcare’s RPM program enables patients to measure blood pressure at home and share the data with their physicians, for better and more efficient hypertension treatment.
CES 2022 | Topic 03
Remote Patient Monitoring Goes Global
OMRON Healthcare’s RPM program enables patients to measure blood pressure at home and share the data with their physicians, for better and more efficient hypertension treatment.
Hypertension Plus suggests medication plans to doctors in the UK, using blood pressure data measured at home
To improve hypertension treatment, OMRON has developed a new, remote solution that enables doctors and healthcare professionals to manage medication administration efficiently online.
About a third of adults in the UK are hypertensive. The National Health Service (NHS), a publicly funded comprehensive health service administered by the UK government, has set a goal of achieving an 80% blood pressure control rate by 2030. The 2020 control rate was estimated at 60%, thus more efforts are needed. Patients in the UK are access to pre-registered general practitioners (GPs) except for emergencies. For GPs with busy practices, patients have a longer waiting time and often inadequate consultation time. These situations may cause patients to interrupt or even discontinue treatment. As such, key points for hypertension management are to improve treatment efficiency and support continuity of treatment.
Hypertension Plus recommends a customized medication plan for each patient to the doctor. The recommendations are based on clinically proven medication titration techniques conforming to hypertension guidelines by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). They become guidance for choosing anti-hypertensive drug treatment depending on age group and complications. Hypertension Plus draws on the TASMIN* home blood pressure trials, a clinical study that proved the potential to reduce blood pressure through a self-management and medication self-titration program conducted at the University of Oxford. Patients are provided with a pre-determined three-month medication plan, meaning they are free from having to visit their GP’s office every month, and doctors can make more effective use of consultation time. Patients can share self-measured blood pressure readings and any subjective symptoms with their doctors. This means medication administration tasks by doctors and healthcare professionals can all be completed online. An alert function continuously supports patients in taking the right medicine and improving medication adherence.
*TASMIN program indicated a significant (4.7mmHg) systolic blood pressure reduction after 12 months of using a telemonitoring platform to titrate when compared to usual care.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)30309-X/fulltext
Management screen for doctors 1. / Left: List of patients color-coded according to BP level / Center: Doctor's task list / Right: Individual patient's BP graph data
Management screen for doctors 2. / Left: Patient's registered information / Center: 3-month medication plan recommendation
Smarthphone app screen for patients / Left: Daily BP management schedule with the time of day for medication and measuring BP / Center: BP management screen showing BP readings and graph / Right: Medication plan screen showing the previous medication plan and medication status
Hypertension Plus website
https://www.omron-healthcare.co.uk/hypertensionplus/
1. Clinicians suggest patients join Hypertension Plus. Patients download the dedicated mobile app.
2. Patients enter their blood pressure readings into the app.
3. The clinician receives a tailored medication plan for the patient generated by Hypertension Plus, assesses it and provides access to the patient. The patient is able to review the plan on their app. *Prescription medication is in compliance with the facilities' operation system.
4. The patients review the results and medication plans with the app. The clinicians modify medication plans at their discretion.
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