“Heart disease and stroke are two of the leading causes of death in the U.S. and there are many health-care providers who employ clinical decision support tools, like standardized treatment approaches or protocols to control hypertension among their patients. This challenge helps us find the best examples of those efforts and scale them up.”
Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, national coordinator for health information technology, has launched a challenge to improve hypertension utilizing health IT innovation. For more information, go here.
