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HHS awards millions to improve heart health education in primary care
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The HHS has awarded $112 million to fund the EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health in Primary Care initiative, a program designed to deliver the most up-to-date information on cardiovascular prevention to small primary care practices.
Sylvia M. Burwell
Various multidisciplinary expert teams centered in seven regional cooperatives will provide onsite coaching, expert consultations, best practice sharing and electronic health records support to almost 300 small primary care practices. The EvidenceNOW program will help improve the heart health of approximately 8 million patients across 12 states. Nearly 5,000 physicians in both rural and urban primary care practices will benefit from the initiative’s goal for ‘better care, smarter spending and healthier people,” according to a press release.
In addition to the seven regional awardees, one awardee will be granted funding to evaluate how the EvidenceNOW program has impacted cardiovascular care within primary care practices, as well as the efficacy of the various strategies used within the program.
“The goal of the EvidenceNOW initiative is give primary care practices the support they need to help patients live healthier and longer. By targeting smaller practices, we have the unique opportunity to reduce cardiovascular risk factors for hundreds of thousands of patients, and learn what kind of support results in better patient outcomes,” Sylvia M. Burwell, HHS Secretary, said in the release.