FutureWare's Personal HypertensionTracker: Easier Than An Excel Spreadsheet To Use

Included is a Palm/Handspring companion program with a HotSync AutoInstall feature for easy synchronization of readings history. For PalmOS Version 2.0 and up. Introduced And Featured At

FutureWare's Personal HypertensionTracker main window, with the dialog where blood pressure readings are entered after they've been taken on a blood pressure monitor. Multiple daily readings have a contrasting color block set to the highest and lowest values in the range. The program maintains and displays daily blood pressure readings in a set of color-coded bar charts, which can be printed in tabular and bar graph form on any desktop printer. The charts can also be faxed to a doctor's office.

Internet convenience features include securely email readings to a doctor, as well as phone-in and online prescription reordering. Faster and easier to use than an unsecured Excel spreadsheet! Encrypted database exceeds HIPAA security requirements. Usage tracking capability for up to four prescriptions. Bar and Line reports for documentation and faxing. Palm Companion program included for increased Mobility Integrated secure email can send readings to doctors.

Taking Your Own Blood Pressure Readings At Home

 We have a Quick Tutorial with things to look for in selecting a blood pressure monitor, and an illustrated procedure on how to take your own blood pressure readings. Taking your own blood pressure saves you more than time, hassles and money.

Your Health: Your Most Valuable Asset

 Keeping fit and healthy is something everyone wants to do, but we cannot continue to be passive in taking preventative actions to safeguard our health. The increasing cost of medical coverage, doctors with ever growing case loads having less time for their patients, the shrinking number of trained and experienced health professionals, and the limits and risks of quick-fix medications make it increasingly necessary to become more involved in making sure we remain fit and healthy, and maintaining a reviewable history of our health signs, such as blood pressure. We invite you to download and test drive our Personal HypertensionTracker at no cost and without obligation, to see for yourself how you can protect your investment in yourself.

Treating Hypertension And High Blood Pressure With Diuretics

Diuretics remove water by increasing urination, with different mechanisms depending on the diuretic agent used.

• A good general layman’s reference for diuretics is at Wikipedia.
• Many prescription drugs for blood pressure medication operate as diuretic agents. Many of the common ones have varying effectiveness and costs as outlined in a January 2008 Forbes article.
• Some natural diuretics are effective for homeopathic treatment.
• Diuretics can have medication side effects, particularly when used in conjunction with another drug, either over the counter or prescription. Attention to these are best done by regular monitoring and recording blood pressure readings, weight, and side effects such as mood, urination rates, etc.
• Exercise can be effective as a natural diuretic, but don’t overdo it: Better to do a little a lot, than a lot a little.

Hypertension: The Silent Killer

Regardless of the primary cause, high blood pressure, or hypertension in medical lingo, is something that more and more Americans either have now, or very probably will have in the future as the natural progression of aging and living longer. Unlike most ailments, high blood pressure does not have any symptoms, which is why it is called the silent killer. High blood pressure generally can be managed in several ways, often with a combination of life style changes, regular exercise, and in some case with medication. Because high blood pressure is symptomless, it has to be checked externally on a regular and frequent basis by monitoring and recording blood pressure readings.

Three Blood Pressure Log Sheets For You To Choose From!

The first is a full blood pressure log sheet on standard 8.5x11 paper, for a month of daily Systolic, Diastolic, and Pulse Rate blood pressure readings, with weight and when taken. The second is a short logsheet on standard 8.5x11 paper that can be folded to pocket size, either Z-fold or Accordian-fold, for six weeks of daily Systolic, Diastolic, and Pulse Rate blood pressure readings, including weight. We will email you a link to the two blood pressure logsheets and our illustrated Taking Your Own Blood Pressure At Home quick tutorial at no charge. FutureWare makes these PDF files available under the Open License convention. You can print, copy and distribute these PDF files without any restrictions.

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You can print the third blood pressure logsheet anytime using our Personal HypertensionTracker, described on this web page in detail.

What Some Of FutureWare's Personal HypertensionTracker Printed Reports Look Like

Blood pressure history can be printed in bar graph, line graph and tabular format, for archival purposes or faxing to a doctor's office. They can also be securely emailed. Logsheets can also be printed for trips and travel.

A Short Product History

FutureWare has developed mainstream software products from its beginnings in 1984, but at the end of 2003 it accidentally expanded into a new area when one of our founders had what was later diagnosed as a kidney stone.

The First Visit To The Health Industry’s Production Side

It was pretty bad, and thinking that he wouldn’t survive the evening, he decided to die at home rather than be strapped into a hospital gurney. Some twelve hours later he did go to the hospital, for a roughly seven hour stay, where he was attended, cumulatively, for about 20 minutes. Not surprisingly, he was told that his blood pressure was very high and should be attended to immediately. Being very active and healthy and without a regular doctor, he asked for a recommendation.

An Instructive Second Visit

After an hour’s wait at the doctor’s office, he was told that his blood pressure was very high, but could be controlled by medication, and he would have to come back at least once a week while the dose was being adjusted, and today’s visit was $150, please pay on the way out. The initial medication made him smell like a chemical dump, the frequent office visits didn’t make sense, and the cost seemed excessive.

A Matter Of Incentives

So he bought a blood pressure monitor, took his blood pressure and pulse readings three times a day and recorded them in an Excel spreadsheet. He also determined to avoid medication, made some minor dietary and lifestyle changes, and in a month got his blood pressure readings back to normal, eliminating the medication.

All’s Well That Ends Well

The Excel spreadsheet was replaced by a purpose-built software program now known as the Personal HypertensionTracker. Some time later, in a follow-through on the kidney stone with another doctor, the software program came up, and the doctor asked if something like that could be done for diabetes, which led to our line of WellnessTracker products.

Lessons Learned

We know that these products have been useful to customers who’ve purchased them, and we keep improving the programs as a result of customer suggestions and comments that continue to come to us. Hopefully, our next product family won’t have as dramatic a start as this one did.

Contact us directly to find out more about our Personal HypertensionTracker, or any of our other WellnessTracker products.

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