Local authorities and local partners should own the design, implementation and monitoring of interventions and solutions to fight hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

Public- and private-sector stakeholders from across society are all playing a role in fighting hypertension.

Beside the collection and use of real-time data, digital technology provides an array of opportunities to transform the way health and care are delivered.

Governments should enforce strategies and reforms, taxation and incentive structures, to address the growing burden of cardiovascular disease.

Bringing health and care closer to where people live and work involves training non-health players to raise awareness of cardiovascular risk factors and to conduct hypertension screening.

Improving hypertension management requires updating clinical protocols, translating them into decision-support tools, training healthcare professionals, and enhancing care and patient engagement.

Innovation in data, digital and AI can transform health systems from being reactive, to becoming proactive, predictive and preventative.

For almost a decade, the Novartis Foundation has been using digital health technology, HealthTech, to power initiatives that are people-centered, integrated, scalable and sustainable.

Increasing awareness, patient-engagement and demand for screening and self-management of hypertension in Vietnam.