Videos Tell the Story of EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health

These four videos tell the story of how seven regional Cooperatives worked with more than 5,000 clinicians at over 1,500 small- and medium-sized primary care practices to improve the delivery of heart health services to about 8 million patients. This was accomplished, despite challenges resulting from years of a fragmented health care system, using a model of external support to often resource-strapped primary care practices. The promising results showed improved delivery of the ABCS (aspirin for eligible patients, blood pressure control, cholesterol management, and smoking screening and cessation counseling) for participating practices. Results also showed that this approach improved the capacity of primary care practices to improve quality of care. The blueprint for improving primary care using external support is already being expanded to address other health problems facing primary care practices, such as unhealthy alcohol use.

Listen to EvidenceNOW leaders and participants tell the story from their unique perspectives in four videos that focus on:

Goals & Objectives

This video outlines the goals of EvidenceNOW to use external supports such as practice facilitation to improve delivery of heart health services and primary care practice capacity to improve care quality.

Navigating the Primary Care Landscape

This video describes the challenges of navigating a tumultuous primary care landscape, electronic health records, and workforce disruptions to successfully provide support to small- and medium-sized primary care practices to deliver heart health services. 

Evaluation & Results

This video describes the independent, national evaluation of EvidenceNOW, including methods used and promising results from over 1500 practices across the country that were provided support through seven regional cooperatives.

Looking to the Future

This video discusses plans for using the EvidenceNOW model of external support to help primary care practices address other health challenges such as unhealthy alcohol use.