H3 — Program materials published 2015–2019

Healthy Hearts in the HeartlandH3

H3 works with small practices on quality improvement strategies for cardiovascular care.

Program overview

What is Healthy Hearts in the Heartland (H3)?

A research program that worked with small practice clinics in the Midwest to implement and evaluate quality improvement strategies for cardiovascular care.

How Does It Work?

Small practices received one year of hands-on coaching, tools and strategies to provide point-of-care support for Million Hearts cardiovascular measures — aspirin therapy, blood pressure control, cholesterol management and smoking cessation. Half of the practices also received support to engage in population health management.

What is the Purpose of This Research?

The research evaluated different implementation strategies and determined the best ways to support small practices with quality improvement work.

Recruitment is now closed. The pages collected here are the project’s own published materials.

Program pages

WHY-01
Why Practices Participated
The retrospective account of what the project offered participating practices, the coaching model, the ABCS measures, eligibility and the participation timeline.
WHY-02
Why Practices Participate
The original recruiting page, kept as it was published while the project was enrolling clinics.
INFO-01
Need-to-Know Info for Participating Practices
The participant hub: what to expect, educational events, technology tools and pay-for-performance programs.
INFO-02
What to Expect
What participating practices received and what participating practices were asked to do.
P4P-01
Alignment with Pay-for-Performance Programs
The alignment table of quality and incentive programs, with the project's own explanations of six of them.
TOOL-01
HealtheRx: A Tool for Patients and Providers
A page whose title alone survives in the files.

Notices and events

August 30th, 2017
August 17th, 2016
February 25th, 2016
December 22nd, 2015

Every event listed above has already taken place. See the events index.

Project roles

The project described the support it provided by role. Individual staff records are not reproduced in this archive.

ROLE
Practice facilitators
Facilitators came from a variety of clinical and technical backgrounds and provided monthly reports and up to weekly coaching sessions.
ROLE
Quality improvement support
Training and technical support to use quality improvement tools, and support to participate in quality and payer programs.
ROLE
Educational programming
Educational resources and opportunities, including webinars and peer groups.
ROLE
Data collection support
Baseline, 12-month and 18-month surveys, and the collection and analysis of clinical quality measures.

Documents and resources

Conference posters and one e-learning module recorded on the project’s Lessons Learned page.

POST
Challenges impacting data collection from Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems in Small and Medium sized practices in the Midwest
November 2017 — AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC
POST
Use of the popHealth Open-Source Quality Measure Engine to Support Cardiovascular Care at Small- and Medium-Sized Practices
November 2017 — AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC
POST
Contrasting Perspectives of Practice Leaders and Practice Facilitators in a Quality Improvement Project
December 2017 — Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, Arlington, VA
TOOL
Effectively Engaging Your Practice
2018

Contact

The H3 consortium included small practice providers in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. Recruitment is now closed.

This site is an informational archive of the program's own published materials. The project is not active, no enrolment is open, and no practice or patient information is collected here.