Hypertension is costly to the healthcare system. Patients with high blood pressure (compared to those without), had 2.5 times the outpatient costs, nearly double the outpatient costs, and nearly triple the prescription medication expenditures.
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Topics: social determinants of health, chronic care management, remote patient monitoring, HRSA
COVID-19 clearly garnered all of the headlines in 2020 but that didn’t stop the rising tide of chronic conditions and the highest mortality rate attributions. It is never easy to report on leading causes of disease and death and while the entire world has its eyes on the current pandemic, the seven most chronic diseases continue to deliver devastating impact by orders of magnitude in comparison to COVID-19.
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Topics: digital medicine, digital healthcare, chronic care management