The Community Pharmacy Scotland (CPS) Digital Hypertension
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Assurance of the business and commercial viability of offering digital services in a community setting
Armed CPS with re-usable tools to extend the Digital Hypertension model to other new services
The Digital Hypertension project expanded on initial simulations of uploading blood pressure readings from a Bluetooth cuff to an app. It aimed to develop solutions for a national hypertension service via CPS pharmacies, producing a blueprint with cost modelling, service capacity estimates, and a roadmap for establishing a live service.
The project was built on early simulation work that demonstrated the technical feasibility of uploading blood pressure readings from a Bluetooth-enabled cuff to a simple app. The Digital Hypertension project aimed to take a significant step forward in demonstrating the technical and service solutions that would support an operational hypertension service that could be offered by CPS pharmacies nationally. While ‘pretrial’ by design, the project outcomes were framed to deliver a blueprint for establishing a live service in due course, including business cost modelling, service capacity estimates, business architecture and model descriptions, and a roadmap.
The project was completed and closed by November 2021.
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