The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association have a wide range of practice tools and information resources to help you educate your patients and their families about their conditions, treatment and care.
Use the tools below to enhance your practice; encourage dialog with your patients; and provide credible, reliable resources for your patients.
HeartHub Patient Portal
HeartHub for Patients is the American Heart Association’s premier patient portal offering patients the tools they need to take control and manage their health. Refer your patients to HeartHub so they can find the latest in cardiovascular and stroke information.
Personal Health Record
Encouraging your patients to keep a total Personal Health Record (PHR) will give you and your patients the most complete picture available of their current and past health, allowing you to provide the most effective, personalized and safest treatment possible. The American Heart Association needs your help in educating patients on the need to own and maintain a personal health record. We have the first step to get you started.
Treatment Decision Tools
Encourage your patients to make informed treatment decisions. Recommend the free Heart ProfilersTM for patients. They are personalized, self-paced, online educational tools for heart disease patients, their families and caregivers.
Online Patient Programs
The American Heart Association offers a wide range of free online programs and products for your patients, their caregivers and families as additional condition management resources. Send your patients to our heart health toolbox for a comprehensive one-stop shop of our heart health trackers, programs, quizzes, news and so much more.
Patient Education Materials
For sound medical information that’s easy to read, easy to understand, cost effective, and developed with patients in mind, rely on our consumer and patient education materials. Topics cover risk factors for cardiovascular disease and stroke, risk assessment, warning signs, conditions, procedures and care. Some topics are available in Spanish.
Patient Information Sheets
You can download Answers By Heart and Let’s Talk About Stroke patient information sheets that address cardiovascular conditions, stroke recovery and prevention, treatments and tests, and lifestyle/risk reduction. Topics are in a question-and-answer format that’s easy to follow and read. Patients can also log and track personal data. Some topics are available in Spanish.
Heart Insight Magazine - now exclusively online
Heart Insight is the first American Heart Association consumer magazine that focuses exclusively on managing and preventing cardiovascular disease and related conditions, such as stroke and diabetes. Heart Insight will provide readers with the most up-to-date, authoritative and practical advice. There's no charge or registration required for online access.
Check out Heart Insight online
Stroke Connection Magazine
Each issue is packed with information supporting stroke survivors and family caregivers. Having extra copies of Stroke Connection available for patients at discharge, new stroke support group members and family members is a great way to extend your therapeutic relationship and offer the ongoing support that's so difficult to provide in today's reimbursement climate.
Order bulk copies of Stroke Connection for your patients.
Cardiology Patient Pages
Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association features easy-to-use patient education pages. The Cardiology Patient Page helps strengthen the patient-physician relationship and educate patients about their condition and treatment. The information is written in lay language and has simple descriptions of critical concepts in cardiovascular diagnosis, testing, methods and therapies. Some topics are available for PDA download. archive
Compliance: It's a Team Effort
Compliance helps maintain and improve health, as well as manage symptoms and signs of disease. This site will help you provide facts, tips and tools to share with your patients.
Active Partnership Cardiac Rehab Workbook & DVD
Give your patients control of their heart health! View the American Heart Association’s award-winning, easy-to use, cardiac rehab program that can help your patients and their loved ones develop healthy living skills, prevent future heart problems, and communicate more effectively with healthcare professionals.
Heart Rx Patient Education System
HeartRx is AHA’s new digital solution that delivers a rich library of comprehensive patient education information to facilitate patient education throughout the continuum of care and across multiple touch points.
Heart360
Our online cardiovascular wellness center lets your patients set goals and track their progress on managing cholesterol, blood pressure, blood glucose, weight, physical activity and medications. Caregivers can set up and manage trackers for loved ones. Reports are easy to generate and share with healthcare professionals. All information is securely stored in Microsoft's HealthVault.
This content is reviewed regularly. Last updated 08/10/09.
