Efficient Self-management of Chronic Disease Using Health Information Technology - a Study on Hypertension

The patients are provided with a home BP monitor. Thereafter they will be asked to use the self-management support system and self-report, once daily in the evening, via their own mobile phone during eight weeks. At each occasion, the patients first answer the questions on wellbeing, symptoms, lifestyle, medication intake and side effects and then measure their BP and pulse, and when these data (mean of three readings) are input into the mobile phone, they automatically register in the database. During intervention the paient has regular access to self-reported data via graphs