ArticleApplied clinical informatics2016
BPcontrol. A Mobile App to Monitor Hypertensive Patients.
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- Internet-based digital intervention to support the self-management of hypertension compared to usual care: results of the HALCYON randomized controlled trial.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Trial
- Clinical Decision Support Systems Using Home Blood Pressure Readings to Manage Patients With Hypertension: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Workflow Automation for a Virtual Hypertension Management Program.Applied clinical informatics · 2021Article
- Assessing Data Adequacy for High Blood Pressure Clinical Decision Support: A Quantitative Analysis.Applied clinical informatics · 2021Article
- Acceptability and feasibility of a mobile health application for blood pressure monitoring in rural Uganda.JAMIA open · 2021Article
- The Design and Rationale of a Pilot Study: A COmmunity and Tech-Based ApproaCh for Hypertension Self-MANagement (COACHMAN).Journal of National Black Nurses' Association : JNBNA · 2020Article
- The Potential of mHealth Applications in Improving Resistant Hypertension Self-Assessment, Treatment and Control.Current hypertension reports · 2019Review
- A Clinically Integrated mHealth App and Practice Model for Collecting Patient-Reported Outcomes between Visits for Asthma Patients: Implementation and Feasibility.Applied clinical informatics · 2019Article
- Mobile Apps to Support the Self-Management of Hypertension: Systematic Review of Effectiveness, Usability, and User Satisfaction.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2018Review
- Chinese Mobile Health APPs for Hypertension Management: A Systematic Evaluation of Usefulness.Journal of healthcare engineering · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundHypertension or high blood pressure is on the rise. Not only does it affect the elderly but is also increasingly spreading to younger sectors of the population. Treating this condition involves exhaustive monitoring of patients. The current mobile health services can be improved to perform this task more effectively.
objectiveTo develop a useful, user-friendly, robust and efficient app, to monitor hypertensive patients and adapted to the particular requirements of hypertension.
methodsThis work presents BPcontrol, an Android and iOS app that allows hypertensive patients to communicate with their health-care centers, thus facilitating monitoring and diagnosis. Usability, robustness and efficiency factors for BPcontrol were evaluated for different devices and operating systems (Android, iOS and system-aware). Furthermore, its features were compared with other similar apps in the literature.
resultsBPcontrol is robust and user-friendly. The respective start-up efficiency of the Android and iOS versions of BPcontrol were 2.4 and 8.8 times faster than a system-aware app. Similar values were obtained for the communication efficiency (7.25 and 11.75 times faster for the Android and iOS respectively). When comparing plotting performance, BPcontrol was on average 2.25 times faster in the Android case. Most of the apps in the literature have no communication with a server, thus making it impossible to compare their performance with BPcontrol.
conclusionsIts optimal design and the good behavior of its facilities make BPcontrol a very promising mobile app for monitoring hypertensive patients.
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