Telehealth as a Tool for Managing Hypertension

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Journal of Patient Care is a peer-reviewed Nursing journal that focuses on a wide range of topics in this field such as patient health, patient safety, patient education, and so on. It provides a platform for authors to contribute to the journal and the editorial office promises a peer review process for submitted manuscripts to ensure the quality of publication.

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Hypertension (HTN or HT), often known as high blood pressure (HBP), is a long-term medical disorder characterised by persistently excessive artery blood pressure. Symptoms of high blood pressure are uncommon. Long-term hypertension, on the other hand, is a significant risk factor for stroke, coronary artery disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, peripheral arterial disease, vision loss, chronic kidney disease, and dementia. Hypertension is a leading cause of mortality globally. High blood pressure is characterised as either primary (essential) or secondary hypertension. Primary hypertension is characterised as high blood pressure caused by nonspecific lifestyle and genetic variables in 90-95% of cases. Excess salt in the diet, excess body weight, smoking, and alcohol use are all risk factors. Secondary high blood pressure is described as high blood pressure caused by a recognised cause, such as chronic renal disease, constriction of the kidney arteries, an endocrine problem, or the use of birth control pills. Globally, high blood pressure affects between 16 and 37% of the population.

Telehealth is essentially the use of ICT to transmit healthcare, clinical services, and medical education from one location to another in order to give faster, more effective clinical treatment and diagnosis. Typically, the terms "telemedicine" and "telehealth" are used interchangeably, and in this review, we shall do the same. American Telemedicine Association's suggestion). The phrase "mobile health" (or "m-health") is used when mobile communication devices, such as smartphones or tablets, are used to communicate data or information between doctors and patients. This category is thought of as a subset of telehealth. M-health applications are often used to track and process a lot of information about a person's lifestyle and overall health. Telehealth and telemedicine are frequently used interchangeably (and we will use the two terms interchangeably in our review, as suggested by the American Telemedicine Association). The phrase "mobile health" (or "m-health") is used when mobile communication devices, such as smartphones or tablets, are used to communicate data or information between doctors and patients. This category is thought of as a subset of telehealth. Typically, m-health applications are used to track and process a lot of information about a person's lifestyle and overall health. The most widely used telehealth tool for managing hypertension is BPT. Basically, it enables remote data transfer of blood pressure measures and other patient health status data from patients' homes or from a professional healthcare facility (such a community pharmacy or primary care clinic) to the doctor's office, surgery, or hospital. Automated upper-arm BP monitors are often used to capture sporadic BP readings in the operating room, or several measures over the course of a day while ambulating, or over the course of several days at home while self-measuring. BPT solutions send BP measurements, either synchronously or asynchronously, to a remote computer host after being saved in the device's memory.

Data transmission is often carried out utilising fixed-line or mobile broadband networks, as well as the internet, and encryption-transmission techniques are used to protect the security and integrity of the data. When data are received at the central telemedicine server, they are stored, processed, and reports are generated automatically. Case managers then examine the reports before submitting them to the reporting physician. When a medical report is ready, it is sent to the patient's supervising general practitioner through email, a website, or specialised smartphone applications. The case manager may interact with the patient throughout all of these procedures to get feedback on their health and to customise their drug therapy in accordance with the managing physician's recommendations.