The PAFP Foundation's @HEART program has stopped accepting registrations for the METRIC/NCQA programs. Thank you to the physicians who registered and thank you to the organizations that helped to make @HEART a success, including the state Department of Health, the American Heart Association and PMSLIC Insurance Co.

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Using EHR to Measure & Improve Quality of Care for Patients with CVD
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Learn how practicing family physicians can use their EHR systems to improve management of cardiovascular diseases. Get specific examples of how EHRs have been used to measure quality of care for cardiovascular disease.

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  Practical Tricks of the Trade to Achieve the ABCs
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Learn to more efficiently and practically manage the three things that can lower the risk of heart disease in patients with diabetes - control of glucose (or A1C), Blood pressure and Cholesterol – commonly referred to as the “ABCs.” 

Information on Heart Disease and Diabetes:

The American Diabetes Association's Make the Link! program

The American Heart Association's Heart of Diabetes program

Handouts for patients with diabetes from the American Heart Association:

• What Do My Cholesterol Levels Mean? (2-pages, PDF)
• How Can I Reduce High Blood Pressure? (2-pages, PDF)
• How Can I Monitor My Cholesterol, Blood Pressure and Weight? (2-pages, PDF)
• How Can I Manage My Weight? (2-pages, PDF)
• What is Diabetes and How Can I Control It? (2-pages, PDF)
• What is High Blood Pressure? (2-pages, PDF)
• Why Should I Lose Weight? (2-pages, PDF)