This white paper shares how states have identified a number of successes, challenges, and lessons learned about how to effectively use health information systems (HIS) to improve hypertension identification, management, and control.
The Texas Department of State Health Services conducted a survey to assess the knowledge and identify training needs of CHWs around hypertension.
Data summary of the Las Animas-Huerfano Counties Million Hearts learning collaborative, aiming to improve the use and sharing of clinical data to better identify individuals with undiagnosed or uncontrolled hypertension and support ...
Developed a process for CDEMS to track patients’ hypertension progress at the community health centers, outpatient department, and emergency room with hypertension clinics.
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State and Territorial Environmental Health Directors (SEHD) The State and Territorial Environmental Health Directors (SEHD) peer group is an organized peer network within ASTHO whose membership includes environmental health leadership from ...
The PLF was developed in close consultation with expert legal drafters and health policy experts in Pacific Island countries (including the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands), along with development partners and academic institutions. The ...
This resource, from UT Health Northeast, lays out the protocol and flowchart for the health system's hypertension program. The program includes referral to services and options for both patients that do or do not commit to the ...
A summary of Colorado Department of Public Health and Environement's (CDPHE) development of a model to engage local public health agencies (LHPAs) and primary care clinics to improve hypertension diagnosis and control in two frontier ...
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This is a spanish language guide to help patients understand what hypertension is, what can be done about it, and how they can manage it from home. The Texas Department of State Health Services Health Promotion and Chronic Disease ...
Dental clinic blood pressure screening protocol, developed by North Dakota Department of Health and used by Valley Community Health Centers in North Dakota.
Process developed to highlight three steps for blood pressure screening in community settings in Palau: identifying high blood pressure reading; navigate patient to a secondary site to reassess patient for hypertension; refer patient to ...