The TEAM intervention, a telehealth-delivered population health management approach, enabled 40% of patients to achieve blood pressure control (<140/90 mm Hg) at 45 days.
Does telehealth-based population health management improve blood pressure control in patients with hypertension?
Telehealth-based population health management, leveraging population health managers, offers a scalable approach to improving blood pressure control.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: There is a growing evidence base describing population health approaches to improve blood pressure control. We reviewed emerging trends in hypertension population health management and present implementation considerations from an intervention called Team-supported, Electronic health record-leveraged, Active Management (TEAM). By doing so, we highlight the role of population health managers, practitioners who use population level data and to proactively engage at-risk patients, in improving blood pressure control. RECENT FINDINGS: Within a population health paradigm, we discuss telehealth-delivered approaches to equitably improve hypertension care delivery. Additionally, we explore implementation considerations and complementary features of team-based, telehealth-delivered, population health management. By leveraging the unique role and expertise of a population health manager as core member of team-based telehealth, health systems can implement a cost-effective and scalable intervention that addresses multi-level barriers to hypertension care delivery. We describe the literature of telehealth-based population health management for patients with hypertension. Using the TEAM intervention as a case study, we then present implementation considerations and intervention adaptations to integrate a population health manager within the health care team and effectively manage hypertension for a defined patient population. We emphasize practical considerations to inform implementation, scaling, and sustainability. We highlight future research directions to advance the field and support translational efforts in diverse clinical and community contexts.
Drake et al. (Tue,) conducted a review in Hypertension. Team-supported, Electronic health record-leveraged, Active Management (TEAM) vs. Baseline was evaluated on Blood pressure < 140/90 mm Hg. The TEAM intervention, a telehealth-delivered population health management approach, enabled 40% of patients to achieve blood pressure control (<140/90 mm Hg) at 45 days.