For eClinicalWorks Users: eCW Cardiovascular Health Management

Presenter: Tracey McGruder, Sr. Clinical Quality Specialist

About This Event

This training covers evidence-based strategies to prevent, identify, and manage hypertension and cholesterol, using clinical workflows, EHR tools, quality measures, and patient engagement to improve cardiovascular outcomes such as; hypertension for Best Practices to diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring, including lifestyle counseling, medication management, blood pressure measurement techniques, adherence strategies, patient self-management, and identifying undiagnosed hypertension through EHR reports and follow-up workflows. Additionally, tips for cholesterol screening, risk assessment, statin eligibility, lipid management, and EHR configuration to support alerts, labs tracking, and reporting. Also, will look into quality & Population Health to learn about cardiovascular quality measures, documentation requirements, EHR optimization, care gap identification, risk stratification, and proactive panel management to address overdue visits, missing labs, and medication gaps.

What You’ll Learn

This session will broaden participants’ familiarity with eCW across the following themes:

• Importance of Cardiovascular Health Management
• Hypertension Management
  • Quality Measures
  • EHR Set Up
  • Population Health Management
  • Panel Management
  • Measuring and Documenting Blood Pressure Accurately
  • Improving Medication Adherence for HTN Management
  • Self-Management Support for HTN
• Undiagnosed HTN
• Cholesterol Management
  • Quality Measures
  • EHR Set Up
  • Identifying Patients for Statin Therapy

Who Should Attend

This training is ideal for medical practice staff and leaders who use or support eClinicalWorks, including:

• Primary care clinicians (physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants)
• Nurses and care managers
• Medical assistants
• Behavioral health staff
• Quality improvement and population health staff
• Practice office managers and administrators

Participants are expected to possess a foundational knowledge of eClinicalWorks and an understanding of chronic care conditions.