Hitting Every Beat—The Power of Education in Heart Failure
February 8, 2024 | CME, HFWeek2024, cardiology, heart failure
Heart failure can be a challenge to manage both for clinicians and patients. It’s a complex condition with various manifestations and presentations, and different disease stages that require different approaches to treatment. New approaches are being developed every day, making education on multidisciplinary management of the condition important for all members of the care team.
For decades, Medscape Education has been a trusted and essential resource for keeping clinicians up to date with guideline recommendations and current heart failure treatment strategies to optimize patient outcomes. Medscape’s partnerships with Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) ensure that the educational information is cutting edge and includes actionable data on advances in clinical care.
In the last year alone, more than 127,000 clinicians have turned to Medscape for a wide range of learning activities, including information on screening tools for iron deficiency, managing patients with worsening heart failure, and advances in remote thoracic fluid monitoring. During the last 12 months, 20,000 clinicians have logged in to Medscape Education to learn more about education on worsening heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
Clearly, healthcare professionals want to support their patients’ health journey, and they’ll go the extra mile to get the information they need. And Medscape Education is there to guide them.
Medscape supports the use of technology to make a difference in healthcare access, equity, and outcomes. In its simplest form, disseminating educational resources from an online portal means that more clinicians, and subsequently patients, will benefit.
In 2022, for example, online education developed in partnership with HFSA significantly improved cardiologists’ and primary care physicians’ knowledge of the use of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT-2) in the management of heart failure.
The data show that not only do clinicians want and need education around heart failure, but that continuing medical education (CME/CE) on Medscape has a significant impact on healthcare professionals’ knowledge and competence.
“Medscape Education has become a destination for clinicians who need education and resources on the latest treatment options for heart failure, thanks in no small part to our collaboration with amazing partners like HFSA and ACC. Together, we’re able to take an impact-first approach to education and develop programs that will have the biggest impact on clinicians’ knowledge, confidence, and competence, and thus, on patient lives. We’re proud of the work we’ve done together so far, and have much more to come in the future,” said Margaret Harris, PHD Director, Clinical Strategy.
Want to learn more about how Medscape is making an impact in heart failure education? Join us this week on LinkedIn, as we raise awareness for Heart Failure and American Heart health literacy by touching upon our impact on patient outcomes, recent publications at key conferences like ACC and HFSA , and share our demonstrated success at our annual HOC conference last year.
For more on heart failure education or cardiology education at Medscape Education, please contact David Anderson or visit theheart.org
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