Generally quite good health, I'm diabetic. Came one-time for a regular check, and found really high blood pressure. Angela was a great case to trial thepersonal health record because she's a patient we were seeing and we got a couple
of high blood pressure readings in the surgery and we wanted to understand if
these were truly high blood pressure that she was suffering all the time in which
case we need to look at starting treatment, other methods, to bring blood pressure down
or if actually it was a fact of getting high readings in the surgery, we know its a very common problem. It's very easy to do.
You put a cuff on your arm and use your mobile phone and it has an iHealth app. You press that, it takes your blood pressure and it automatically transfers
information from the iHealth app to your patient access app where I've given permission for my GP to look all my medical details. It's really easy as a GP to get access to the data that the patients push to us. We simply click on one of the sharing records buttons and it opens up the patient data.
You can see a distinction between the patient recorded data our own data. In the case of Angela, the outcome was
really pleasing both for her and for us and we actually found that the blood pressures she was putting in and recording at home were actually in normal limits. And that's a great
outcome for that, she doesn't need any treatment. We have faith in the readings we get in there.
As well as patients like Angela, where we're worried about the hypertension, I think this could be used in diabetic patients recording low blood sugars, patients with chronic lung disease much with saturations for exacerbations and I think there's more possibilities for this as we go forwards. It's been absolutely amazing for me because it's given me back my life. I was quite
scared of exercising before because of the high blood pressure but I'm back
into exercising and it's just like it's opened up my life again..
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