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Webinar – Population Health Issues and Opportunities: Spotlighting High Blood Pressure
07/24/18 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT
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Improving population health requires health systems to take a tailored approach and re-prioritize their efforts to address the challenges of costly conditions impacting their communities. According to recent estimates from the American Heart Association, 100 million Americans have high blood pressure, and consequences of inadequate treatment include risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, renal failure and early death, as well as a high cost of care. Get practical tips to help put new clinical practice guidelines into action to improve the care of patients with high blood pressure.
Define what population health means within the parameters of your own organization and community
Address the critical importance of focusing on high blood pressure as a major priority for health systems
Understand the importance of population health strategies designed to diagnose and treat hypertension
Recognize that one of the keys to improving hypertension care is to familiarize clinical and administrative health system leadership with the comprehensiveness of the 2017 ACC/AHA guidelines for high blood pressure
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