Hypertension

High blood pressure (also known as hypertension) puts patients at risk for heart disease and stroke. Blood pressure control has been shown to be the single most effective opportunity to save lives in primary care. Working with patients to control their blood pressure helps to improve their health and reduce the need for additional care interventions, lowering the total cost of care.
Blood pressure control is a major quality measure across the majority of Aledade contracts.
Hypertension workflow implementation requires a foundation in clear care team roles and responsibilities, strong teamwork and communication, and an understanding of contract performance and measurement requirements. Learn more by visiting Quality Transformation in Practice.
Addressing hypertension includes supporting patients to control their blood pressure with medication and addressing medication adherence barriers. Learn more by visiting Medication Adherence.
Foundational Materials

Foundational learning is for newcomers to this topic and the Aledade App. These materials provide a general overview to the topic and go on to explore performance measurement, practice workflow transformation, and App use.

Commit to Improving BP: Actionable Steps
Learn about actionable steps to improve patient blood pressure (BP). These steps include: identifying a BP champion, assessing staff competency and workflows, measuring BP accurately, and communicating effectively with patient communications.
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How Does the Aledade App Support Hypertension Workflows
Learn how Aledade supports hypertension workflows in the App. This includes using the Hypertension Worklist to outreach to patients.
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Hypertension Contract Performance and Measurement
Learn about documentation of blood pressure and meeting contract performance and measurement requirements.
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Hypertension During Visit Workflows
Learn about different workflows during patient visits to address hypertension.
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Hypertension Pre-Visit Workflows
Learn about pre-visit workflows to address hypertension. This includes knowing patient population data, establishing a team-based approach, instituting roles at the practice to improve hypertension control, and using workflows to identify patients with hypertension.
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Why Focus on Hypertension
Learn about the importance of controlling blood pressure and addressing disparities.
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Intermediate Materials

Intermediate learning is for learners with experience on this topic and the Aledade App. These materials can enhance practice workflow efficiency and maximize App utilization.

Addressing Clinical Inertia and Evidence-Based Guidelines for Hypertension
Learn how to address clinical inertia. This deck provides an overview of evidence-based solutions that can help prevent clinical inertia and the resulting cardiovascular deaths that can occur from it.
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Improving Data Quality
Learn why clinical data quality is important and understand steps to improve practice data quality.
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Partner with Communities
Learn about methods to connect with community partners to improve standard of care for patients.
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SMBP Implementation Guide
Learn about implementing a Self-Management Blood Pressure (SMBP) program at a practice. This SMBP implementation guide is for home blood pressure cuffs that are not tech-enabled to transmit results to clinicians (such as with remote patient monitoring systems).
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Treatment Considerations for Black Patients
Learn about how to overcome clinical inertia, understand an overview of evidence-based treatment algorithms for hypertension, and learn best practices to solve for hypertension control disparity in Black patients.
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General Materials
Measuring BP Accurately
Learn about crucial steps to measure BP accurately.
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Partner with Patients
Learn about recommended modifications and guidelines for healthy lifestyles.
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