On December 21, 2020, Silver Fern Healthcare released Hypertension, the newest chronic disease program featured on its proven Behavior Diagnostic Platform. This Platform provides chronic care management teams with previously inaccessible insights to improve treatment plans and achieve better health outcomes for people with chronic diseases.
The Hypertension Program applies Silver Fern’s evidence-based techniques for unlocking patients’ individual barriers, goals, and preferences for treatment, and features assessments and clinical decision support tools tailored specifically to patients with hypertension.
Hypertension is the third program released by Silver Fern in the second half of 2020. Silver Fern’s slate of existing disease and pre-disease programs includes: Type 2 Diabetes; Heart Failure; Prediabetes; and Healthy Lifestyle & Disease Prevention.
“Adding hypertension to the Silver Fern Behavior Diagnostic Platform addresses a timely and serious clinical problem at epidemic levels,” said Garry Welch, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer. “Users of our Platform will now be able to unlock the key behavior and psychosocial issues that are at the heart of true patient engagement and behavior change for people with hypertension.”
The Hypertension Program features 14 modules, including two modules that are brand new to the Platform: Home Blood Pressure Monitoring and Weight Loss.
The Behavior Diagnostic Platform, originally released in the commercial market in 2018, leverages 30 years of clinical research and integrates the American Diabetes Association’s 2016 landmark guidelines for prediabetes and diabetes, which emphasize the importance of addressing behavior psychosocial issues. The 2.2 Behavior Diagnostic Platform release includes additional feature enhancements and content improvements across the Platform.
“I am extremely impressed by the Behavior Diagnostic Platform created by Silver Fern Healthcare,” said Deborah Greenwood, PhD., President of Deborah Greenwood Consulting and 2015 President of the American Association of Diabetes Educators “There is finally movement and recognition of the importance of assessing and addressing social determinants and behavioral and emotional health issues.”
For more information about the Behavior Diagnostic Platform or to request a demo, please visit https://www.silverfernhealthcare.com.
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