Test of cell phone based blood pressure monitoring doubles improvement

Donna Cusano

Another monitoring pilot, this time in a population of diabetics with high blood pressure, seems to have excellent results–1/3 of patients successfully controlled their blood pressure. What is different here is that the the monitoring device sends the reading via Bluetooth directly to a cell phone, and shortly the patient gets feedback via text message; readings are stored plus notification is sent when needed to the physician. However the article in HealthDay News is maddening:  it attributes to an American Heart Association press release 17 November from an AHA conference but there is no link; the release is not on the conference website; no information on where the test is, why a diabetes/hypertensive population or whose system was used (or the designer.) Other site pickups lead back to HealthDay. Help on verification/sourcing is appreciated!