Catching up with some of the AMA’s Healthier Nation Innovation Challenge Finalists!

Come chat with some of the AMA’s Healthier Nation Innovation Challenge finalists! They’ll be answering questions about their entrepreneurial journeys and how they took their solutions from inception to market!

As we move into the era of population health and big data, it is clear that having the capability of implementing large systematic blood pressure management programs has the potential for huge impact in preventing morbidity and mortality, and creating large cost savings for patients and systems. To roll out a blood pressure management program, we need to clearly define what is an accurate blood pressure measurement and how is it obtained. Who performs the blood pressure measurement? How useful is it? Most recently, the American Medical Association published the results of a Blood Pressure Check Challenge for medical students. One expert commented that these results suggest that the medical students were “falling well below what we would expect in terms of basic clinical competency.” Does this study suggest that there is a larger problem with blood pressure measurements?