15 Apr 2026: The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented shift from in-person care to delivering health care remotely. To limit the infectious spread, patients and providers rapidly adopted distant evaluation with online or telephone-based diagnosis and management of hypertension. However, many patients and care providers were unprepared for this rapid shift and may not be delivering optimal hypertension assessment and management. Given that it is likely that virtual care of chronic diseases including hypertension will continue into the future, the ISH developed a position paper to provide practical guidance on the virtual management of hypertension to improve its diagnosis and blood pressure control.

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