New Jersey-based digital health platform Hoy Health has launched a remote patient monitoring programme for underserved communities.

Chronic conditions affect more than half of the US adult population, with six in ten adults having at least one chronic condition. Chronic conditions are the leading causes of death and disability and the leading drivers of the USA’s $3.8tn in annual health care costs.

Hypertension, in particular, is a chronic condition that almost half of adults suffer (45%). Hypertension control rates are significantly lower among non-Hispanic blacks (48.5%), Hispanics (47.4%) and Asians (43.5%) than non-Hispanic whites (55.7%). Primary determinants of disparities associated with poor hypertension are substandard insurance coverage and poor access to health care.

These statistics highlight the need to develop programmes to help underserved communities manage these conditions.

Hoy Health has developed a bilingual remote patient monitoring programme that provides real-time total cover for hypertense patient management. Using available technology, the programme provides all the needed software, chronic condition testing kits and supplies, and the remote patient monitoring from the patient’s home to assure patient engagement and continuous compliance and adherence occur at a low cost and without the need for the patient to visit a clinic.

This programme is tailored to respond to the grant provided by HRSA to FQHCs (HRSA FY2021 Supplemental Funding for Hypertension) that awards $89.5m for health centres to adopt remote monitoring for their patients. This turnkey offer is designed not to disrupt clinical workflow and has been successfully implemented across the USA in health clinics and individual physician locations.

“At Hoy Health, we are committed to developing new business models to assure that all communities, but especially underserved groups, have access to quality and affordable primary care, including chronic condition management,” said Mario Anglada, Hoy Health CEO. “Our company is working diligently to increase health equity, and want to partner with as many institutions as possible that share our mission to reduce this health gap.”

Hoy Health is a health-tech digital platform that provides a comprehensive and integrated bilingual healthcare support ecosystem to medically underserved patients, with offerings related to medication access, medication adherence, telehealth and chronic condition management programmes.