RPM brings patients’ blood pressure under control at Kentucky Cardiology

Kentucky Cardiology in Lexington was finding it difficult to monitor the blood pressure of patients at home and feel comfortable it was getting accurate numbers.

The staff would ask a patient if they had a way to take their blood pressure at home, and they would say yes. Staff then would provide the patient a blood pressure log (a paper form) and request they take their blood pressure two times a day.

THE PROBLEM

“We ran into difficulties with this because the patients would either forget to take their blood pressure, decide it was too much to track or simply decide they weren’t going to do it,” said Dr. Avi Eres, a physician at Kentucky Cardiology.

“At their follow-up visit, the patient would have no log to show the provider, or they would have multiple pieces of paper with no dates…