It started as research for an app she was developing. Dianna fell into a rabbit hole of stroke data in Georgia — and what she found appalled her. A crisis hiding in plain sight. Decades of alarming, racially disparate statistics. And virtually nothing being done about it.
She couldn't find a single free blood pressure monitor available to anyone who needed one. No billboards. No public health campaign. No awareness. Just people being sent home from emergency rooms with instructions to diet and exercise — and a silent condition continuing to take lives.
She couldn't let it go. She began developing the Georgia Blood Pressure Monitor Pilot through her company, 108Standard Health — a proposed initiative to bring proven remote patient monitoring solutions to the communities that need them most. She went deeper into the research. And the statistics kept getting worse — and more disparate.
We Were Fine is what happens when a population health expert refuses to look away.