Sapphire®: Hypertension
- Streamlined Hypertension Monitoring: The app effectively monitors hypertension and centralizes relevant patient data, including medications, systolic BP, and medical history, helpful for visualization and workflow.
- Timely Intervention and Improved Patient Outcomes: The app facilitates timely responses to elevated BP values and medication adherence issues, leading to quicker identification and resolution of problems, such as medication errors.
- Enhanced Patient Data Access and Tailored Management: Clinicians appreciate expanded access to patient BP data outside of clinical visits, allowing for a better understanding of trends over time and more tailored management of hypertensive patients.
- High Patient Engagement: Despite enrolling an older population (average age 72.2 years), the app demonstrated notably high patient engagement, with over 50% maintaining at least a 50% response rate throughout the pilot.
- Valuable and Impactful Tool: Patients generally found the app to be a convenient alternative to in-person visits for BP reporting, saving time and enhancing the quality of conversations with their doctors. Increased self-awareness around lifestyle impacts on BP and motivated regular monitoring.
- High Recommendation Rate: Most patients indicated they would recommend the app to others, especially those facing challenges in managing hypertension or maintaining medication adherence.
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Situational Awareness
Sapphire Hypertension helps clinicians and their care team achieve a 360degree view of their patient’s hypertension control, medication adherence, and any care barriers that might be impacting a patient’s ability to achieve effective blood pressure control. The patient dashboard provides an integrated view of all of the necessary data elements in a patient chart that are relevant to clinical management. In addition, a patient roster enables population-level oversight because it displays all of the patients who are enrolled in the Sapphire Engage program. Stoplight coding of roster data highlights patients that may need more active intervention.
How it Works
It all starts with conversion to morphine milligram equivalent (MME). Opioids come in varying forms (injectable, tablet, sublingual, etc.) and potencies. Tallying administrations and converting to MME is the only way to know if you’re increasing or decreasing your patient’s daily opioid intake, and by how much. This process could take upwards of 10 minutes per patient per day, but with our app, which embeds directly into your EMR without any registration or login required, it happens in seconds.
With all of the data crunched in our platform, the app displays an interactive MME trend line going back to the start of the encounter; makes the user aware of opportunities to discontinue to step down opioids; plots surgical procedures relative to MMEs; and displays open non-opioid analgesia orders. Patient pain scores relative to MMEs are also available in the app.
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Features/Benefits
- Embeds directly into physician workflow without any user registration or login required by care team members
- SMART on FHIR enabled
- Saves care team time to provide population-wide oversight of patients with hypertension
- Works with any certified electronic health record
- Provides hypertension management transparency to your outpatient practices
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