

#Hasten program install
Intervention group participants were sent a hyperlink to install the hypertension personal control program (HPCP) ("Lark HTN Pro"), which is a smartphone application installed on their iOS device during their initial office visit (screening/baseline) and successfully took a reading from their HBMD. The intervention group received all the interventions provided to the control group. Participants continued to receive all routine care, including anti-hypertensive medications as prescribed by their regular clinicians. At the baseline visit, participants were instructed to install an Omron application to their smart phone device (to monitor use of the HBMD).

#Hasten program how to
Participant also received an information sheet describing home blood pressure monitoring that gives advice for how to respond to different home readings.
#Hasten program Bluetooth
If changes were deemed necessary, a revision to the study protocol was submitted to the IRB for review and approval prior to implementing these changes.Ĭontrol group participants were provided with a home blood pressure monitoring device (HBMD) (Omron BP761N Bluetooth Smart Automatic Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor) and will be instructed in its use at the baseline study visit.

We recruited between 350 to 400 participants in order to have 333 participants with analyzable data at the time of study completion. We measured change in blood pressure by in-person examination at 6 months. We recruited adults with elevated blood pressure as assessed by in-person standardized examination at baseline. Randomization was stratified by: age (<65 or ≥65 years of age) and baseline systolic blood pressure (<145 or ≥145 mmHg) to optimize the likelihood of obtaining similar populations in each treatment group. Randomization was performed using a centralized computer-generated assignment sequence uploaded a priori to Northwestern University's REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) application. We randomized participants in a 1:1 fashion to the intervention group (HPCP + HBMD) or the comparator group (HBMD alone).
#Hasten program trial
We conducted a non-blinded randomized controlled trial among hypertensive adults in NMG outpatient clinics. During the on-site visit individuals were asked to provide written informed consent and have blood pressure measured in a standardized fashion to see if this inclusion criteria is met. The study team used structured language queries of electronic health record data from the Northwestern Medicine Enterprise Data Warehouse (NMEDW) to identify potentially-eligible participants with elevated blood pressure and exclude patients with clinical exclusion criteria from Northwestern Medical Group outpatient practices.
