全球智库信息集成服务系统

Key Findings

1. The Million Hearts initiative has been successful at the national level in bringing diverse stakeholders together to address cardiovascular disease (CVD).
2. As an information-sharing network, Million Hearts has succeeded.
3. There is some evidence that Million Hearts partners are achieving CVD prevention and process improvement outcomes and are working to strengthen partnerships to achieve these goals.
4. Facilitators to success include trust and alignment of goals among partners, and barriers include lack of direct funding and different perspectives on CVD prevention among partners.
5. The network can be kept intact as is, but there are ways to enhance it and strengthen the current level of commitment and activity from its membership.

More than 800,000 people die each year from a stroke or heart attack, making cardiovascular disease (CVD) the leading cause of death in the United States. To help address this issue, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched Million Hearts in 2011 — an initiative to coordinate efforts across the United States to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. Million Hearts seeks to reduce smoking and sodium intake, eliminate intake of artificial trans fats, and encourage healthy lifestyle changes, such as the ABCS — aspirin when appropriate, blood pressure control, cholesterol management, and smoking cessation — which can potentially prevent more deaths than other clinical preventive services.