Generating a Hearth Health Plan
3 min
cardiovascular disease risk assessment calculator generating a heart health plan this functionality allows clinicians to collaborate with the patient, using a guided process, to identify patient goals and determine realistic steps that can help manage the patient’s cardiovascular risk the process culminates in a personalised heart health plan resource (generated by health nz) that patients can take home, summarising their cardiovascular health assessment and providing clear, practical actions the patient can take to improve outcomes requirements this functionality is available from profile 10 0 11 onwards this feature is only available in new zealand, as it relies on integration with health nz's cvdra api the user must have a provider number applied to their record the emessage service must be installed and the api key entered for the emessage service this api key is given to intrahealth by health nz speak to your intrahealth customer service representative to arrange for this to be configured for you users must first perform a cvd risk assessment docid 6hprr9bmju mdtwkrtn5m before generating a heart health plan if they have not already done so, they will be prompted to do so how to generate a hearth health plan navigate to clinical / calculators / cardiovascular risk click the generate heart health plan button you will be presented with a dialog if you have not already completed a cvd risk assessment , the dialog that will ask you to start a cvdra calculation note a cvd risk assessment calculation is a pre requisite to obtain a heart health plan click on start new to perform an assessment and follow the instructions for assessing cardiovascular disease risk docid 6hprr9bmju mdtwkrtn5m if a cvd risk assessment has been completed , a dialog will ask whether you want to use the existing calculation or start a new calculation either click on use this to use the existing calculation, if it is sufficiently up to date, or click on start new to perform an assessment and follow the instructions for assessing cardiovascular disease risk docid 6hprr9bmju mdtwkrtn5m next, in the patient goals and steps to manage cvd risk dialog enter the number of months to next visit this is a mandatory field discuss goals related to cvd risk with your patient and enter these goals (up to a maximum of 3) into the dialog under my goals are discuss steps to reach those goals with your patient and enter these steps (up to a maximum of 3) into the dialog under steps i will take choose between 1 and 3 relevant interventions from the list provided these selections will result in helpful information being returned in the plan generated (see step 6) click submit this sends a request to the api for processing after processing, you will be asked whether to save the generated heart health plan to the patient's documents before displaying after selecting yes or no , the heart health plan is displayed you can print it to provide it to the patient this plan includes helpful information, such as in the example suggestions below, which is based on the inventions selected earlier learn more for more information on the cvdra calculator and other calculators in profile, please click on the article links below assessing cardiovascular disease (cvd) risk docid 6hprr9bmju mdtwkrtn5mclinical calculators in profile docid\ d 5tnrewt0 b dibfeqpn