Your Blood Pressure Check-in is an important part of using Viso to manage your blood pressure.
National guidelines in England recommend to measure your blood pressure at home during
the morning and evening for one week in order to get an accurate picture of your blood
pressure. During your Blood Pressure Check-in Viso will alert you to measure your blood
pressure in the morning and the evening every day.
Taking measurements over 1 week gives an accurate picture of your blood pressure. Your
doctor uses this to review your treatment plan.
Viso automatically calculates your average blood pressure after every measurement. When
your average blood pressure is either a lot higher or a lot lower than your target, then
less data is needed to confirm your blood pressure status. Therefore Viso may end your
Blood Pressure Check-in early. Don't worry, your data will be shared with your doctor in the
usual way.
If you do not record enough measurements during the Blood Pressure Check-in (including the 7
days extension), your Blood Pressure Check-in is not completed. Your doctor will still be able
to review any data that you have submitted and decide if any action should be taken. You
will continue your current medication step until next month unless your doctor
recommends a different action, which you will be notified of via the app. If you did not
submit any data, your doctor will be informed of the missed week and may contact you
directly.
An incorrect measurement can only be corrected within the input screen and never edited
or deleted afterwards (one hour after measurement entry), as your clinician can use the
data for decision making. If your incorrect measurement does not match your second
reading, the programme will ask you to do a third measurement to avoid incorrect
measurements to be unnoticed. If an incorrect measurement still is added, please contact
your clinician to inform them on this error recording.
You can postpone your Blood Pressure Check-in to start in a different week more convenient for you. It is important that we get your blood pressure readings to your GP Surgery so please note that:
You can postpone the Check-in for 1 week (or up to 1 month only if your GP Surgery has marked your blood pressure as controlled, and you are not ungoing medication changes).
You can postpone the Check-in once, and will not be able to postpone again until you next participate in a Check-in.
