The journey of a blood-pressure reading
A blood-pressure reading at the pharmacy — and then? Here is the journey — often full of gaps — of a simple reading, and the moments where information gets lost.
Taking your blood pressure seems simple. But that reading travels through many hands — and, along the way, it often gets lost. These gaps are called the pathway's breakpoints.
The journey of a reading
Where information gets lost
- 01 A reading never transmitted taken, but ending up nowhere.
- 02 A treatment misunderstood a change that wasn't explained.
- 03 A lack of coordination each actor sees only a part.
- 04 A sign gone unnoticed for lack of links between the information.
- 05 Knowing who to turn to and when — it's not always clear.
The problem is almost never the reading itself. It's everything that happens to it afterwards.
What Vertical Health Data does
VHD does not take your blood pressure and gives you no advice. Its work: to map these breakpoints, actor by actor, to make them visible — and, in time, reducible. That is the whole point of the hypertension vertical.
Vertical Health Data does not collect, host or process any individual health data. The collection of personal health data would be conditional on HDS-certified hosting, which is not in place; it therefore does not take place.