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The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Peoplechart Corporation jointly developed the CardioSmart Health Tracker for helping you manage your heart conditions. This particular module is aimed at hypertension management and provides you with tracking tools and information to better understand the standards of care as modeled after physician best practices and your physicians’ recommendations for managing your hypertension. The Health Tracker is a part of the ACC patient-education program, CardioSmart.

Features
Using this tool, patients can:

• Track blood pressure
• Track heart rate
• Track weight and view BMIReview current and past medications
• Observe impact of lifestyle factors on blood pressure
• Lifestyle habits that can be tracked include:
• Sleep behavior
• Exercise
• Smoking
• Illegal drug use
• Alcohol use
• View averaged and trended data in 30, 60, 90, 180, 270, 360 days

More Information
Most physicians recommend that patients with hypertension track their blood pressure (BP), heart rate, and weight every day -- sometimes, even several times a day. The CardioSmart Health Tracker (Blood Pressure) follows ACC best-practice guidelines and provides you and your physicians with a way to work together in managing your hypertension. The Health Tracker captures, organizes and presents multiple BP readings, medications, and lifestyle factors in one place. To help explain daily fluctuations, the tool also displays averaged and trended data in context of changes in your individual lifestyle. Using this tool, patients are better able to understand their physicians’ recommendations, the impact of their own behaviors, and share results with their physicians in the next office visit. Our ability to exchange data with Microsoft® HealthVault™ enables you to easily copy the information between our two applications so that your information stays current in both systems.

About ACC
The American College of Cardiology is leading the way to optimal cardiovascular care and disease prevention. The College is a 37,000-member nonprofit medical society and bestows the credential Fellow of the American College of Cardiology upon physicians who meet its stringent qualifications. The College is a leader in the formulation of health policy, standards and guidelines, and is a staunch supporter of cardiovascular research. The ACC provides professional education and operates national registries for the measurement and improvement of quality care. More information about the association is available online at www.acc.org.

About Peoplechart Corporation
Peoplechart provides individuals, family members and healthcare providers with an integrated solution for managing medical information and for collaborating with each other to improve health outcomes, efficiency, and quality of care. Peoplechart’s member-level and staff-level tools enable patients and health professionals to access and share health information and to communicate more effectively with each other, family members, and physicians outside of the network. The information, whether collected by Peoplechart, uploaded by the individual, or transmitted by a health provider — in paper or electronic format — is organized in a way that is most relevant to the situation and to the user. More information about the organization is available online at http://www.peoplechart.com/.