Clinical trial NCT06712966: EngageRx With Integrated Self-Measurement of Blood Pressure
Official title: EngageRx With Integrated Self-Measurement of Blood Pressure
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: WITHDRAWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Hypertension
Lead sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: New York University
name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
First posted: 2024-12-03
Enrollment: 0
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: Single-arm interventional study with comparison to historical controls
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This pilot study will support use of EngageRx_SMBP for 70 patients in the UCSF General Internal Medicine practice. The goals of the pilot will be to assess usability and satisfaction of both patients and clinicians, and to describe BP-related process metrics and outcomes including time to intensification of BP medications and/or BP control.

Detailed description: EngageRx is a programmable clinical decision support app that clinicians can access within the context of their electronic health record (EHR), and it can be connected with other technologies. We are integrating EngageRx with CareSimple, a company that provides a cellular-enabled BP device that patients can use for SMBP. CareSimple devices are FDA-cleared, can be shipped directly to patients, used by patients right out of the box (after installing batteries), and then deliver the SMBP measurements directly to the CareSimple cloud platform. There is no requirement to "sync" the device, and no need for patients to have a smartphone or set up an account or sign into anything. CareSimple supports a dashboard and portal that allows authorized users to sign in and access measurements for a patient, but this amounts to another barrier for clinicians to access the measurements; our integration with EngageRx will 1) allow clinicians to initiate SMBP monitoring for a patient with the click of a button (after confirming their shipping address and preferred language); 2) automatically register the patient in the CareSimple system, which triggers CareSimple to mail the patient the BP monitor device with instructions; and 3) automatically push the CareSimple SMBP measurements to EngageRx so they are available the next time the clinician opens EngageRx. The SMBP measurements will be used with EngageRx's internal algorithm, along with office BP measurements, to recommend BP management decisions to clinicians. We believe this integrated system, which we will refer to as EngageRx_SMBP, will make SMBP easy for clinicians and patients. We would like to determine if this system is truly easy to use for clinicians and providers, and whether it appears to facilitate the BP-related processes of care required for controlling hypertension.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adult patient (18+ years old) with uncontrolled BP in an office visit
* Lowest SBP\>140 or lowest DBP\>90 during the visit at one of the Mt. Zion General Internal Medicine practices
* Speaks English or Spanish

Exclusion Criteria:

* If patient is unlikely to be able to use a home BP monitor
* Cannot understand the verbal consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Net Promoter Score
timeFrame: 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: San Francisco
country: United States
facility: University of California, San Francisco
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
name: Mark Pletcher, MD MPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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