Putting the Guidelines into Practice: Building a State-of-the-Art Lipid and Cardiometabolic Clinic-Creating the Network for Success: Building Prevention Into Your Health System

Creating the Network for Success: Building Prevention Into Your Health System

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The speaker discusses how to scale preventive cardiology across large health systems, noting limited trial evidence and the need to share best practices. Key aims are to communicate prevention’s value to administrators (community impact, branding, philanthropy, partnerships, media visibility, and research funding) and to recognize that modern preventive cardiology extends beyond lipids to full cardiometabolic (CKM) care. They describe building diverse subspecialty clinics (lipid, cardiometabolic, hypertension, women’s, sports, and imaging-based atherosclerosis detection) supported by multidisciplinary teams. Pharmacists and specialty pharmacies are emphasized as essential for complex, evolving guidelines, frequent titration (e.g., GLP-1 therapies), prior authorizations, and cost navigation. The electronic medical record can enable registries, dashboards, case finding, and guideline-based reporting; practical near-term tools include dot phrases, pre-visit screeners, standardized after-visit summaries, and referral pathways. The talk also highlights population health initiatives and education—grand rounds, curricula, rotations, community lectures, and society resources—to spread prevention system-wide.

Keywords

preventive cardiology scaling

cardiometabolic (CKM) care clinics

multidisciplinary teams pharmacists specialty pharmacy

EMR registries dashboards guideline reporting

population health education prevention programs