Hypertension

Hypertension’s Impact

Hypertension, commonly known as high blood pressure, is a chronic medical condition characterized by elevated blood pressure levels in the arteries. This overview provides a comprehensive understanding of hypertension, including its causes, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options. Understanding hypertension is crucial for individuals affected by the condition and healthcare professionals, as it enables early detection, intervention, and management to reduce the risk of complications such as heart disease, stroke, and kidney damage, and to promote overall cardiovascular health.

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Challenges Facing Healthcare Providers

Late Diagnoses And Complications:

Thyroid disorders often go undetected until it reaches an advanced stage, leading to more severe health complications.

Limited Access To Specialized Care:

Many regions lack sufficient resources and specialized healthcare providers to address thyroid issues effectively.

Patient Education Gaps:

There is a lack of awareness among patients about the early signs of anemia and the importance of proactive healthcare.

Fragmented Treatment Approaches:

The healthcare system sometimes struggles with coordinating care for patients with thyroid disorders, resulting in fragmented and less effective treatments.

Financial Strain On Patients

The costs associated with thyroid disorders treatment, including medications and hospital visits, can be a significant burden on patients.

How Can The Healthcare Industry Do Better?

Enhanced Screening and Education

Implementing widespread and efficient screening protocols can improve early detection of stroke risk factors and symptoms. Educating healthcare professionals and the public about stroke prevention, warning signs, and the importance of seeking immediate medical attention can help reduce delays in diagnosis and treatment.

Access to Specialized Stroke Care

Ensuring equitable access to specialized stroke centers and neurologists trained in stroke management is essential for delivering timely and comprehensive care. Telestroke programs can help bridge geographical barriers and bring expert stroke care to underserved areas.

Coordination of Care

Implementing care coordination models that involve collaboration between primary care providers, neurologists, rehabilitation specialists, and other healthcare professionals can improve the continuity and quality of stroke care. 

Advances in Treatment and Technology

Investing in research and innovation to develop new treatment modalities, such as advanced imaging techniques, minimally invasive procedures, and neuroprotective therapies, can improve stroke outcomes and reduce disability.

Public Health Initiatives

Implementing population-level interventions to address modifiable risk factors for stroke, such as hypertension, smoking, obesity, and physical inactivity, can reduce the incidence of strokes and related complications.

IMPROVE YOUR OUTCOMES WITH SMARTCARE360°

SmartCare360 is an online platform that partners with your physician to make world-class healthcare available on-demand, virtually or in person. By customizing our many resources to your specific. conditions and needs, we simplify the process of managing your chronic diseases, accessing a doctor whenever you need, and being proactive about preventative healthcare.

Benefits Of SMARTCARE360°

SmartCare360 makes healthcare easier to access, more personalized, and more affordable for every patient. Here are the main benefits of our virtual healthcare platform for patients with all kinds of healthcare needs.
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Key Features Of SMARTCARE360°

 SmartCare360 streamlines access to healthcare, tailoring it to each patient’s unique requirements while also making it more cost-effective. Here are some of the key advantages our virtual healthcare platform offers to patients with diverse healthcare needs.

Remote Monitoring

SmartCare360 integrates with a wide range of remote monitoring tools to provide a way for providers to identify and diagnose health issues before they create serious complications.

Telehealth Appointments

SmartCare360 allows patients to schedule or request virtual appointments. These appointments put their healthcare team within easy reach of evaluation, discussion, questions, and follow up for their conditions.

Disease-Specific Care Management

Disease-Specific Care Management

Tailored to your chronic conditions, our care management focuses on risk assessments, preventative care, and regular check-ins to help patients better control their disease. Plus, our providers are always available through messaging.

Educational Content

Educational Content

Through SmartCare360, patients get tips, emails, games, recipes, and more specialized to your chronic condition and preferences. That supports patients in staying abreast of their condition and how to manage it well.

Patient Portal

Fragmented care could be a thing of the past if providers leverage the unifying power of virtual healthcare to take care of their health issues. Through SmartCare360, patients can access anyone on their healthcare team whenever they need to.

Lower Healthcare Costs

Cost Effectiveness

We accept Medicare and Medicaid and only charge you your copay! That puts exceptional virtual care, at patients' fingertips, without costing them more than they would pay to go to the doctor anyway.

We Invest at Least $100K Per 500 Patients That Qualify!

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LUCAS KRAUSE
PhD MSC
 IT Infrastructure & Architecture 
Lucas is a 20+ year experience enterprise Cloud Solutions Architect who has worked with fortune 100 companies and is competent in the following: Enterprise API Gateways – AWS | Azure | Salesforce | Mulesoft | Apigee | IBM Cloud | Anypoint | Cloud Data Warehouse – Snowflake | DBT | Cloudara | Airflow | Kubernetes | AWS | Looker | Prometheus | Full-Stack / Cloud Native – C# / Java / React / Angular / Golang / Python – Cloud DBs – Dynamo / Mysql / Postgres / MSSql / Oracle / Netezza
RENE HINOJOSA
MBA
Compliance & Regulatory 
Experienced Director of Strategic Development with a demonstrated history of spearheading initiatives throughout the healthcare system. Skilled in Physician Relations, Software Documentation, Healthcare Management, Healthcare, and Public Speaking. Strong program and project management professional with years of a proven track record that showcases a creative and proficient skill-set in problem solving.
TY UMOH
MD MBA
Investor Relations & Finance 
Ty has a bachelor’s degree in Accounting & Finance from the University of Houston and a Master’s degree in Economics and Corporate Finance from Rice University. Previously, Ty worked as a senior consultant at FTI Consulting, Inc., advising various stakeholders of troubled and distressed companies across a wide range of industries, including financial services, hospitality, gaming, commercial real estate, energy & oil field services, construction, infrastructure, and municipal-related assets. Additionally, my prior experience includes roles at BNY Mellon and Ocean Park Advisors, LLC’s Investment Bank where I was involved in equity and debt capital raising transactions as well as M&A assignments, liquidity forecasting and assessments, business plan due diligence, development of waterfall and recovery analyses, stakeholder negotiations, plan of reorganization development, M&A/transaction advisory including purchase and sale negotiations and seller due diligence support, board/shareholder representation, developing executive compensation/bonus plans, and ad-hoc strategic and operational assessments.
JAVI MALCOLM
MD 
Strategic Development
Dr Malcom’s Medical Professional qualities are based on 10+ yrs. of participation and exposure to numerous resources as an ER Medical Business Co-Founder, IT Market Leader, Mentor, Red Cross Humanitarian Participant, Graduate of Masters Studies, Graduate of Medical Doctorate (M.D.), Hospital Administrator, and member of the Physician Executive Team. My unique background and combination of these attributes & skills have created a unique innovative space that helps reinforce my ability to grasp the different areas of healthcare that positively impact the hospital ecosystem and be a valuable member of the C-Suite team, as DHR Health’s Chief Medical Information Officer, Physician Executive Leadership Committee, and the Cerner Advisory Committee.
Dr. Sun-Wright
MD
Medical Director 

Dr. Sun-Wright holds a PhD in Biochemistry and an MD with a history of strong leadership and process ownership in primary care and multi-specialty clinical settings working with some of the largest healthcare organizations in the country. While serving as a board member and managing partner of a large independent physician association and Chief Strategy Officer as the primary advocate for financial and operational decisions. As Medical Director for Well Med her responsibilities included the development of organizational goals and targets for clinical performance in a governed Medicare Advantage environment.

NARIO CANTU
Pharmacist
Senior Executive Director
Dispensing, assessing and monitoring medications, in patients requiring pharmaceutical therapy. Providing and assessing point of care testing. Providing excellent service and customer satisfaction. Drug information and education. hospital readmission prevention consultant, transition care provider, medication reconciliation provider, pharmacogenomic testing, point of care testing. Medication Therapy Management, medication adherence and legislative advocate as it pertains to pharmacy and patient care.
SABRINA RUNBECK
MPH, MHS, PA-C
Director People & Clinical Outcomes 

Physician Assistant turned Entrepreneur with Bachelor in Neuroscience, Masters in Public Health and Health Sciences, After working 80 hours a week as a cardiothoracic surgery physician associate, my workload took a toll on my personal and professional life. That was when I realized my life needed to change. I ended up taking a deep dive into performance sciences and positive intelligence. As a result, I cut down my clinical hours by 30% and increased my income by 50%.

Reggie Abraham
PhD, MHA, MBA
Managing Director  

Experienced Healthcare Executive with a demonstrated history of working in a hospital setting and various other health care facilities. Skilled in Healthcare Operations, EHR & PM Systems, Budgeting, HR Management, Strategic Planning, and Revenue Cycle Management, . Strong business development professional with a Doctorate in Management and Organizational Leadership, Master’s in Healthcare Administration, Master’s in Business Administration. Exceptional track record of establishing strong leadership teams and developing effective operational efficiencies in healthcare operations. Establish and maintain good working relationships with physicians, staff, vendors, government agencies, managed care companies, and clients.

KYLE CHRISTOPHER
Vascular General, Cardiac, OB Sonography
Founder/CEO - Strategic Development  
Assists Physicians and Healthcare Executives in Leveraging Virtual Care Management Technologies, NEW Billable CPT Codes, and Value Based Care Models to Improve Clinical Outcomes and Create NEW Revenue streams. Kyle holds a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with a minor in marketing, and a Degree in Vascular, General, Cardiac, and Obstetrical Sonography. His philanthropy work focuses on veteran affairs, single mothers, first responders, and mentoring terminally ill and at-risk youth through organizations such as Beauty for Freedom, Ferrari Kid, Southwest Keys Program, ICON Talks, and Living Beyond A Dream.