心脏医生

Promoting access to quality cardiology care
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Telemedicine program connects participating health care facilities with volunteer cardiologists at no cost to patients

The 美国心脏协会 has established 心脏医生 to provide quality cardiology consultations to under-resourced communities via telemedicine. The program features no-cost, doctor-to-doctor cardiovascular consultations by 美国心脏协会 volunteer cardiologists to participating primary care clinicians in Federally Qualified Health Centers and community health centers who are treating underinsured and uninsured patients.

Under-resourced populations have a disproportionately higher incidence of chronic and debilitating conditions including cardiovascular disease.1 The Association developed the 心脏医生 program to help bridge the gap in care to under-resourced communities.

概述(PDF)

玛丽·安·纳瓦尔医生

安·玛丽·纳瓦尔，M.D., Ph.D., a cardiologist at UT Southwestern Medical School, is the lead volunteer and was central to the early days of the program pilot. Navar helped conceptualize 心脏医生 based on an informal consultation system she had with clinicians, 包括她的父母, who were volunteer health care professionals at a community health center that provides free medical care to the uninsured and under-insured of South Texas.

Dr. Navar receives the Award of Meritorious Achievement (Video)

心脏医生 successfully provided consultations for patients at three health centers across the U.S. in a 2020-2021 pilot program. Now, Phase 2 of the program has begun, with additional health centers and volunteers coming onboard. 提供资金, 在某种程度上, 由安泰基金会赞助, 一个独立的, charitable and philanthropic affiliate of CVS Health. CVS also supports the 美国心脏协会 as national presenting sponsor of Go Red for Women®.


Access to specialist care for cardiovascular disease can be expensive, geographically limited and unavailable to communities who need it most, yet health consultations that include cardiovascular considerations can improve life expectancy without extra costs.
(Lauritzen T. 等., 2008)2

成功的故事

Success stories are already rolling in, like this one: A primary care physician in Texas knew his patient with heart failure needed a cardiologist, but the patient had significant barriers to getting the expertise and treatment he desperately needed. The physician reached out via the program to 美国心脏协会 volunteer cardiologist 约翰·奥斯本，M.D., CEO State of the Heart Cardiology in Grapevine, Texas, for consultation. The physician and cardiologist consulted digitally on the 心脏医生 platform and collaborated to create a treatment plan that is expected to be highly successful.

“With the plans we have in place for this patient, you’re going to add years to his life, and he’s going to feel so much better.”

  • 约翰·奥斯本，M.D., 美国心脏协会 volunteer cardiologist and CEO State of the Heart Cardiology
约翰·奥斯本医生

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