Introduction

Tips & Suggestions

Quick Start Guide

Detailed Functionality

Introduction

Do you suffer from Hypotension or Hypertension?

Approximately 74 million Americans suffer from abnormal blood pressure. What is normal blood pressure? The top number is the Systolic pressure. This is the blood pressure generated when the heart contracts. The bottom number is the Diastolic pressure.  This is the blood pressure generated when the heart is relaxed.   Normal blood pressure is 120/80.   High blood pressure is 140/90 or higher.   Low blood pressure is 90/60 or lower.  High blood pressure symptoms include feeling stressed, sedentary, bloated, and weak.   Low blood pressure symptoms include feeling weak, tired, dizzy, and fainting.

Your normal daily blood pressure range can vary, so any single blood pressure reading is not conclusive. BP readings must be taken at different times of the day to determine the average blood pressure levels over time. Your blood pressure is influenced by the time of day. For normal people, the highest BP occurs during the middle of the day, and the lowest at around 3 AM to 4 AM in the morning. For some people, this early morning low reading does not occur. For these people, their highest blood pressure usually occurs around 6 AM to 9 AM in the morning.

Your blood pressure is influenced by many factors. What time of day? Have you eaten less salty foods recently? Were you relaxed that day, when you are usually much more stressed? Have you recently exercised? You must check daily, especially if you show "borderline" readings. Use your Blood Pressure Tracker so that you come to know your own body, and the effects of stress, mood, sleep, food, and time of day on your blood pressure.

Your Blood Pressure Tracker

If you have hypertension or hypotension, one of the most helpful tools for you and your doctors is your Blood Pressure Tracker data.  Most doctors surveyed felt that the best way to improve a consultation would be for a patient to keep track of their symptoms and BP readings.  Keeping a record of your daily readings in your tracker can be a great way of determining the true impact of hyper or hypotension on your life.  It is useful to keep track of any triggers, foods eaten, treatments and their effectiveness.  Even if you don’t see a doctor on a regular basis for your blood pressure, keeping a log of all the items mentioned above will help you manage your blood pressure better.  If you do see a doctor, email details from your blood pressure tracker directly to your doctor before your consultation.

If you are just starting to investigate your triggers, you may want to track everything that may be causing your high or low blood pressure to find a pattern.   You should track information such as what you've eaten, whether you had stress or not, and all of your symptoms.  You should do this on a daily basis for a while.   Once you have enough data, your tracker will help you know your body so that you can begin to manage your blood pressure levels better.

Tips and Suggestions

Please read the following Tips & Suggestions section. Your diary is very customizable. To unleash its power you should familiarize yourself with its full potential.

Lists

You can add your own "choices" to all lists. When adding events to your diary, several drop-down lists are shown. Add a choice to the list by typing in a new entry at the bottom of the list. You can also do this from the "Manage Choices" option from the main menu or from the "Preferences" option. All choices can be edited and deleted here also.

Look & Feel & Visual Indicators

All symbols that appear on your calendar can be changed. These indicators help you understand your data. They represent an event that occurred on a specific day. You can also change the theme color for your diary. This customization is done from the "Preferences" option from the main menu.

Columns

All columns that appear in your list view can be changed. This customization is done from the "Preferences" option from the main menu.

Backing Up Your Data

You can email yourself a report with all of your data. This will provide you with a backup of all of your data. Emailing is done by pressing the email button on any of the reports that is provided through the "Reports" menu.

Reports

All reports can be emailed. The emailed report is sent in graphical format and in comma-delimited format so that it can be used in another program such as Excel spreadsheet. Emailing is done by pressing the email button on any of the reports that is provided through the "Reports" menu.

Quick Start Guide

This section guides you through a simple Blood Pressure Tracker session.   You will navigate through the common functions to create and view your health information.   For help on advanced features go to the Detailed Functionality section.

Recording a Blood Pressure Reading

You have just taken your blood pressure, what do you do? 

Your data will be more accurate if you record your reading in your tracker as soon as possible.  It is essential to remember any symptoms or possible triggers to gain insight into your blood pressure.

Step 1

Highlight the date of the reading and press the add (+) button.

Step 2

Enter the data.  If you have more than one reading in a day, don't forget to enter when the reading was taken.

Step 3

Finally, press the “Save” button.  If you do not save before exiting, you will be asked to confirm your action. 

Finding your Blood Pressure Patterns

You have entered several days of blood pressure readings.  You want to see if you recognize any patterns in your life so that you can try and manage your blood pressure better.  The Blood Pressure Tracker Reports will help you do this.  The report analysis will not be useful unless you have a few blood pressure readings entered and your data is accurate.  For accuracy, remember to record your data as soon as you can.

Step 1

Navigate to the Reports menu

Step 2

Select the “Status Summary” report.  This is an integral report in determining your predictors and triggers. 

Step 3

Select the “Blood Pressure Log” report.  This provides you with a list view of your readings.

Step 4

Select the “Average Blood Pressure Profile” report.  This provides you with a linear graphical view of your blood pressure levels so that you can track any possilbe cycles and pinpoint which days of the month that you need to focus on.

Step 5

Select the “Daily Statistics” report.  This provides you with the average, minimum and maximum levels at specific times of the day.

Step 6

Select the “Trigger Ratio” reports.  This provides you with a graphical view of your triggers.  This will enable you to pinpoint your triggers  that you need to focus on.

Detailed Functionality

Please note that functionality described here varies from system to system.

This section provides details of the Blood Pressure Tracker application.   If you have a specific question that is not answered in this section, please utilize the cellHigh Support to ask further questions or send your questions to Support.

The Menu

The Blood Pressure Tracker menu is available by pressing the top left arrow by the Blood Pressure Tracker program name.  The following table lists the options available through the main menu.

Blood Pressure Tracker Menu

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Calendar View  &  List View

When you enter the tracker application, the Calendar View is displayed.  From this view, you can add or edit information for the current day, by highlighting the date from the Calendar View and pressing the add or edit button. To delete an entry, highlight the date and press the delete button.  If you want to see more details, select the List View.  You can even change which fields that display in your list view from the Preferences option.

Calendar View

To customize the look & feel of the calendar, select the Preferences option from the menu

List View

To customize the fields that display in this list, select the Preferences option from the menu

  Adding

To add new blood pressure information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View then press this add button. The following “Add” information screen is displayed.  Enter the blood pressure information and then press “save”.

Date

Enter the date and time of your blood pressure reading.

When

Enter when your reading was taken.

Systolic BP

Enter your Systolic BP.

Diastolic BP

Enter your Diastolic BP.

Heart Rate

Enter your heart rate.

Symptoms

On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad or how good do you feel?

Triggers

Select all triggers that could effect your reading.  It is essential that you select everything that occurred within 24 hours of the reading.  This will help you identify possible triggering events of your BP levels.

Comments

Enter additional remarks regarding this attack.

Overall

Overall how do you feel?

 Editing

To edit information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View or List View and then press this edit button. Pressing this button takes the user to the “Edit” information screen.

Editing

Entering blood pressure information

Saving

 You will be asked to confirm your action if you discard before saving your changes

Deleting

To delete information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View or List View and then press this delete button.  You will be asked to confirm your action before it is deleted.

Deleting

  Select the “Trashcan” button to delete the selected blood pressure information

Confirmation

  You will be asked to confirm your action before the entry is deleted

Reports

Reports are available by pressing the reports option from the top left arrow by the Blood Pressure Tracker program name.   After you make your report selection, you will enter the desired date range for your report. The following lists the blood pressure reports available.

The Report Menu

Summary

The “Status Summary” report summarizes your blood pressure information in one report for the given date range.   It determines your predictors for your blood pressure levels.  It calculates your minimum, maximum and average systolic, diastolic and heart rate over the given date range.  Additionally, the most frequent triggers and symptoms are listed.   Since this report identifies your triggers and frequency patterns, it will be most helpful in managing  your blood pressure.

Blood Pressure  Log

The “Blood Pressure Log”  lists your BP readings for the given date range.  The readings are color coded to help identify issures.

Profile

The “Average Blood Pressure Profile”, provides you with a linear graph of your average blood pressure and heart rate values.  You can see your highs and lows in the given date range.

Statistics

The “Statistics” reports are useful tools that show you numerous statistics including overall average, minimum, maximum, weekly and daily distributions.   

 Preferences

Your Blood Pressure Tracker is completely customizable.  You can set preferences for your health tracker, such as color theme, which fields to display and visual indicators.  Additionally, password protection, backup and login information is set in this scene.

There are four Preference sections. 

In the “General Settings” drawer you have access to the password protection and date formats.

In the “Application Settings” drawer you can access the “Reset Data” function as well as managing your customizable drop down lists.

In the “Look & Feel” drawer you can access your color theme and what visual indicators or data appears on your calendar and lists.  

In the “Communication Settings” drawer you can access your cellHigh Online Account Credentials. 

General Settings

Password Protection

Tap the “ON” button to enable password protection for your data.  If you enable password protection you will be prompted for the password.  There are no restrictions on password length or content.  Remember this password, as you will be prompted for this password each time you start your application.  To disable the password protection just press the “OFF” button.

Date Format

Select the correct date format for your region from the drop-down list. 

Application Settings

Manage Choices

The Manage Choices section allows you to add data to and edit your customizable drop-down lists.  All lists that appear in your tracker can be added to through this option.  For instance, if you have a particular “Symptom” that does not appear in the list, you can add it here.  When you add information to your tracker, you can also at that time add new entries to these lists.  These entries can be edited and deleted here also.

Reset All Data

If you want to erase all of your data and start new, you can do this by pressing the “Reset All Data” button.  Since there is no way to reverse this process, you will be asked to confirm if you really want to do this.  NOTE: you can not undo this action, so be careful and make sure that you do not want the data that is currently in your tracker.

Manage Choice List

Adding symptoms to the Symptoms List.  To Add an item, you tap the ‘+’.  To Change an item, you tap it; To Delete an item, you ‘swipe’ it and the Delete appears (following figure)

Deleting an Item

Deleting a symptom from the Symptoms List

Look & Feel

Theme

Customize your tracker look by choosing from one of the six color themes.

Display Emoticon

You have the ability to select an emoticon that represents an overall feeling about each entry in your tracker.  These emoticons appear on your calendar and list views.  If you don’t want them to display, uncheck the display emoticon checkbox.

Visual Indicators

Visual Indicators help you understand your data.  They represent an event that occurred on a specific day.  These settings allow you to select which event and associate an icon with that event.

Text Indicators

The text that displays on your calendar can be turned on or off here.

List View Fields

The information that displays on the List View, can be changed from here.

Theme

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can customize your look by choosing from six color themes.

Text Indicators

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can turn off the display of the text that displays on your calendar.  “Text Indicator 1” displays the latest blood pressure of that day.  “Text Indicator 2” displays the latest heart rate of that day.

Visual Indicators

You can customize 3 visual indicators that display in your tracker

Visual Indicators

Visual Indicators help you understand your data.  They represent an event that occurred on a specific day.  These settings allow you to select which event and associate an icon with that event.  You can display up to 3 visual indicators on your tracker.

For each visual indicator, you select which icon to display if the condition specified is true.  To specify the event, you must select the field, operator and value of the event.   In the example to the left, the “Pain” icon will display if the “Symptom” field equals any value other than “Normal”.  This indicates that you have abnormal symptoms on that day, so the “Pain” icon appears.

Visual Indicators:  Icon List

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can customize your look by choosing from several visual indicators

Visual Indicators: Field List

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can select the field that will trigger the visual icon to display on your calendar