Outpace CVD™

Taking guideline-directed care to where patients are seen most.
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The American Heart Association’s Outpace CVD™ suite offers technology solutions and quality improvement support for health care organizations participating in our programs and partnered initiatives as they target cardiovascular disease.

Our goal is to connect guideline adoption, evidence-based programming and systematic approaches to addressing and reducing chronic cardiovascular diseases treated in the outpatient space.

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Unlocking Success: The Benefits and Foundations of Outpace CVD™

Support

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Quality improvement activities at the national, regional, and local levels with continuously evolving programs to meet you where you are.

Uncover

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Dig deeper with data-driven insights from our reporting and registry products and explore opportunities for benchmarking, quality improvement, research, and more.

Educate

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Tools and resources tailored to outpatient practices with CME-credited professional education opportunities.

Celebrate

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Annual recognition awards to celebrate the achievements of our committed participants.

Ways to Participate

Outpace CVD Core Programs and Partnered Initiatives

Outpace CVD offers quality improvement and recognition opportunities for organizations providing outpatient care for hypertension, diabetes, and cholesterol by supplying data insights, educational materials, and regional staff support. Each year, Outpace CVD engages nearly 1,900 healthcare organizations and positively impacts over 33 million patient lives through its programs and collaborations.

Target: BP™

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A joint initiative of the American Heart Association and the American Medical Association, with a deep focus on hypertension control and the AMA MAP™ framework.

Check. Change. Control. Cholesterol™

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Focused on addressing high cholesterol through ASCVD risk assessment and appropriate therapies.

Target: Type 2 Diabetes℠

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Addressing CVD risk factors in patients with Type 2 diabetes as part of the AHA and American Diabetes Association’s Know Diabetes™ by Heart initiative

Outpace CVD Registry

Connecting Health Data for Better Patient Outcomes

The Outpace CVD registry is a clinical quality improvement tool that pulls in patient-level data from your existing electronic health records and displays your organizations performance against various clinical quality measures tied to mitigating risk factors for cardiovascular disease. This registry experience eliminates the barrier of manual data abstraction and provides real time data results for quality improvement and research strategies.

Conditions of interests:

  • Cholesterol and ASCVD
  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Heart Failure
  • Hypertension
  • Diabetes
  • Lifestyle

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