Oakland-based University of California Health launched a tool in its EHR to help treat hypertension in patients systemwide.
The UC Way Hypertension Medication Algorithm uses a stepwise approach to increasing medication types and doses, according to a March 18 system news release. The tool allows clinicians to adjust treatment for individual factors and special populations.
It was developed by a team of cardiologists, internists, primary care physicians, nurses, pharmacists and data scientists. The tool was launched at all six of the system’s academic medical centers in 2023.
University of California Health saw improved blood pressure control rise from 68.5% of patients to nearly 74%, according to a study published March 18 in BMJ Open Quality.
“This improvement amounts to about 4,860 people who now have controlled blood pressure, which translates to 72 strokes, 48 heart attacks and 38 deaths averted,” lead author Sandeep Kishore, MD, PhD, an internist and associate professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, said in the release.
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