The Integrated Health Model Initiative (IHMI), a collaborative effort founded by the American Medical Association (AMA) to lead solutions for improving, organizing and exchanging health data, has announced the development of a new data model to manage an uninterrupted stream of data from innovative devices that remotely monitor blood pressure.
The Self-Measured Blood Pressure Data Model was created by IHMI’s first collaboration between the health and technology sectors to tap into important health information that has often gone uncollected, unanalyzed, or unshared, opening potential to improve health outcomes. This successful collaboration has helped speed product integration as the first medical technology companies have adopted the IHMI data model for use in the field.
IHMI’s unique data model standardizes clinically relevant information for advanced blood pressure monitoring devices that improves the capture of clinically valid blood pressure data. The IHMI data model serves as a data portability standard used by devices to define what data to collect, select how to represent the collected data, and determine how to encode the data for easy transmission, exchange and retrieval.
The clinical validity of the Self-Measured Blood Pressure Data Model was reviewed by physicians in collaboration with technology leaders in the field. Following the successful completion of a clinical validation process, the Self-Measured Blood Pressure Data Model has now moved into product integration with higi, a consumer health technology company with over 10,000 smart health stations located in locations across the United States supporting 54 million unique users, and a key contributor to the IHMI clinical validation process.
HealthSteps, a health technology company that has developed a mobile application that places the patient at the center of their own care, is also integrating content from the Self-Measured Blood Pressure Data Model into its mobile platform.
A product integration agreement has also been finalized with Cloud DX, a Canadian leader in the digital healthcare industry.
