Home blood pressure monitoring

Home monitoring helps providers better understand patients everyday blood pressure numbers in a cost-saving way.Turns out, home blood pressure monitoring can improve hypertension control and save medical costs

Champion studied the impact of an intervention that provided free home blood pressure monitors, online and print resources for tracking their readings, and monitoring reminders to 2,550 adult patients with persistent uncontrolled high blood pressure.

“Home monitoring helps providers better understand patients everyday blood pressure numbers in a cost-saving way that doesn’t increase the burden on patients or providers,” Champion added.