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Today's Business Challenge: Best Practice CV Medicine Provides Gender-Specific Care

Research shows best practice cardiovascular medicine and research should be gender based in order to provide optimal clinical and financial outcomes.1 Yet building a gender-specific wellness program requires a clear vision, a detailed roadmap, and expertise building community cardiovascular programs. Additionally, a robust, sophisticated database is required to track patients with a gender-specific focus - from risk assessment, through diagnosis and treatment by a multi-disciplinary team of physicians, physiologists, dietitians, and nurses.

The Solution: CardioWellness - Apollo Advance Module Supports Wellness Care for Men & Women

CardioWellness is a comprehensive set of tools and support programs to help heart centers grow their own successful gender-specific CV centers. CardioWellness recognizes the differences in presentation, diagnostic testing, risk assessment, and outcomes for men and women. These differences are built into the way patients are diagnosed, treated, and tracked throughout the continuum of care:

  • Risk assessment
  • Diagnostic testing
  • Interventional procedures
  • Surgery
  • Medical & lifestyle treatment

CardioWellness Reports
Patient Summary Stroke Mortality By Gender
Referral Type By Specialist MI Mortality By Gender
Mortality By Cause Non-Fatal MI By Gender
Non-Fatal Stroke By Gender Age of Patients By Phase
Age Of Patients By Gender (Follow Up Visit) Patients By Age Group (Follow Up Visit)
Age Of Patients By Gender - Initial Visit Patients By Age Group - Initial Visit
Patients By Referral Type Patient By Phase
Patient Referrals By Gender Patient Phase By Gender
Risk Factors By Age Risk Factors By Categories

Risk Factors By Gender

  

Once data is collected, data analysis tools and reports make the data actionable. CardioWellness enables centers to:

  • Track the volume and outcomes of cardiovascular care
  • Compare results with state and national benchmarks
  • Implement quality improvement initiatives based on real-time data
  • Apply for and complete research grants
  • Educate the community and referring physicians to the success of the program
  • Create revenue streams for the heart center

With CardioWellness, patients benefit from the higher-quality care and outcomes that come from gender-specific treatment.

Expertise in Wellness Care & Cardiovascular Information Management

Healthcare provider experts in the field of cardiovascular wellness and women's health developed CardioWellness. LUMEDX is the market leader in cardiovascular information systems and cardiology data integration, serving over 350 hospitals worldwide. LUMEDX's Apollo Advance clinical data repository is the premier database for cardiology, and is the No. 1 solution for ACC & STS registry participation. Apollo Advance serves as the foundation to CardioWellness, providing robust, secure and HIPAA-compliant data integration.

Making a Difference: Heart to Heart (MDHTH) consultants have expertise in the medical direction and administration of gender specific cardiovascular care, as well as in the mentoring of hospitals, health systems, and physician practices in program development, operations, marketing, and outcomes benchmarking tailored to their community needs. Most recently, MDHTH has been recognized for their work on the first ever benchmark program for women's cardiovascular programs in the U.S.2

CardioWellness Across the Continuum of Care

Multi-disciplinary teams of physicians, nurses, dietitians, exercise physiologists, office managers, and coordinators enter data into CardioWellness to track patients throughout the continuum of care. CardioWellness seeks "closed-loop care." It starts with community outreach, and progresses through CV assessment, physician appointments, referrals for testing and treatment, and clinical research trials. The result: premier patient care.

With CardioWellness Gender-specific data is collected in real-time, unlike traditional "chart pulling." Then the data can be used to evaluate, develop, promote, and provide support to their program's long-term success.

Information captured in CardioWellness includes:

  • Demographics
  • History
  • Health risk assessment
  • Physical examination
  • Laboratory results
  • Medications
  • Diagnostic tests
  • Interventions
  • Primary and secondary prevention measures prescribed:
    • Exercise
    • Body Composition
    • Nutrition
    • Treatment plan
    • Physical exam
    • Follow up
  • Patient intervention outcomes
  • Mortality

In addition, institutions will have the necessary tools and reports to author a comprehensive roadmap, which they can use for tracking and benchmarking their program's progress.

Treatment Plan - Documents a patient's recommended treatment such as exercise program, nutrition education, and medications.


Patient Profile View - Key patient information, status, and multi-disciplinary treatment plan.


Physical Exam - Comprehensive patient information for risk analysis and treatment


Steps To Build Gender-Specific Wellness Centers

Cardiovascular research over the last 10 years has identified striking differences in certain manifestations of the disease process when analyzed by gender.

  • Despite national campaigns & media attention, disparities in care delivery continue
    • In 2003 leading heart centers do not show improvements from the CDC National Discharge Survey numbers in 2001
  • Hospitals and healthcare providers must meet the standards of :
    • Providing appropriate care for patients based on proven clinical research that promotes and assures payment for services rendered
    • Providing therapies that are necessary and reimbursable
    • Developing new programs, adding new technologies, develop & promote skills of the healthcare provider team
    • Participating in clinical research programs that address the populations they serve
    • Running successful clinical & financial cardiovascular service line
  • The heart center should work with medical and administrative experts to develop a Wellness Center vision
  • Identify physician and staff champions
  • Develop a roadmap, including:
    • Detailed plan encompassing multi-disciplinary departments
    • Technology solutions that are cost-justified and linked to their value-payoff
    • Other databases to be integrated
    • Creation of patient classification system
    • Creation of data analysis reports tailored to clinical quality and operational goals
    • Implementation milestones
  • Training by experts in cardiowellness and cardiovascular information systems
  • Ongoing staff education and support

 
Raising Education & Awareness Levels
ACTION
  • Self reported risk assessment
    • ROI
  • Capture the oldest-new marketshare for the CV line. WOMEN....and their family members.
    		•
    Treatment, Education & Lifestyle Modification
    ACTION
  • Follow up physician visits for risk factor managemnt to target goal.
  • Risk factor modification visits with multi-disciplinary team.
    • ROI
  • Reimbursement & fee for service for the mutidisciplinary team services
    		•

    Tracking ALL Phases

    ROI: Elevaction of CV line, MD's, and hospital in the marketplace through publication, presentation, clinical research, and grant awards and monies. Produce and track downstream residuals.
    Complete Gender-Specific CV Screening & Risk Assessment
    ACTION
  • Objective measurements
  • An appointment with a health care professional
    • ROI
  • Fees for services
  • Revealing the need for further medical examinations, testing, and treatments that are scheduled at this visit
    		•
    Diagnosis & Intervention
    ACTION
  • Appointment with health care providers for comprehensive CV rist evaluations, physical exam, diagnostic testing, intervention, and treatmetn with a multidisciplinary team
    • ROI
  • Payer reimbursement
  • Referrals to providers, clinic and hospital services
    		•

    Why Create a Women's Cardiovascular Health Program?

    • Cardiovascular disease is the largest killer of women in America
    • Women make up 52% of the population, yet more men are treated for cardiovascular disease
    • The majority of women are not aware of their personal risk
    • Just by reducing one high-risk factor, a woman can substantially decrease her chance of a coronary event
    • Women are often the decision makers for the family
    • Women are under represented in studies for coronary artery disease, making up just 9% of ECG studies, 21% of echo studies, and 28% of MPI studies3
    • Create an effective means to reach out to the community and create multiple sources for revenue

    Analyze Aggregate & Individual Patient Populations

    CardioWellness includes a substantive and validated comprehensive package of statistical and outcomes reports for aggregate patient population - as well as individual patient reports. Reports track each program's progress, including clinical outcomes, and downstream residuals and referrals.

    Reports include:

    • Risk factor profiling
    • Gender specific analysis and comparison
    • Clinic and hospital residual outcomes and referrals
    • Treatment profiles by age, gender, and race
    • Effect of education, screening, diagnosis, and intervention on risk factor reduction

    Training Provided by Medical & Administrative Experts in CV Wellness

    MDHTH consultants, along with LUMEDX professionals, provide training and holistic education with the implementation of each CardioWellness solution. At training, users learn what it means to comprehensively track and benchmark the CV service line, as well as receive help personalizing the module to their site's needs.

    1 Heart disease in older women: gender differences affect diagnosis and treatment - The Heart Geriatrics, Dec, 2003 by Marc A. Tecce, Indranil Dasgupta, John U. Doherty

    2ACC Practice Preview, June 2004

    3Coronary Artery Disease in Women: What All Physicians Neet to Know, 1999 by L J Shaw, et al

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    Making a Difference: Heart-to-Heart

    To help hospitals grow their own successful gender-specific wellness programs from start to finish, LUMEDX is partnering with Making a Difference: Heart to Heart. Making a Difference: Heart-to-Heart offers extensive consulting expertise to help institutions define program goals tailored to their community needs, and to create and implement “bricks and mortar” women’s cardiovascular centers.

     

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