273027 Million Hearts: The new public health—Rewiring for the future

Thursday, June 28, 2012 : 8:30 AM - 8:50 AM

Janet S. Wright, MD , Million Hearts, CMS Innovations Center/CDC, Baltimore, MD
     
This session will focus on Million Hearts, an HHS national initiative co-led by CMS and CDC and executed by a host of private and public partners with an explicit goal to prevent a million heart attacks and strokes in five years. While the goal helps focus and accelerate the effort, the pathways to achieve the goal are as varied, complementary, and creative as the organizations that have joined. The initiative, even in its first six months, shows the power of partnerships to accomplish together what no single organization can do alone.

Learning Areas:
Chronic disease management and prevention
Clinical medicine applied in public health
Other professions or practice related to public health
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related education
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Identify the main pillars of the Million Hearts Initiative 1. Compare the current level and the 2017 goals of performance at the population level of the ABCS 2. Describe the network of networks that serves as the Million Hearts infrastructure of action

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I practiced cardiology for more than two decades; currently serve as Executive Director of Million Hearts, a national initiative to prevent a million heart attacks and strokes in five years. In this position, I have come to understand the federal family’s work to prevent CVD using policies, programs, and payment mechanisms and have begun to understand the power of public health’s contributions at the population level.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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