{"id":1859,"date":"2024-02-29T21:28:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T21:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cep.health\/e2p\/?page_id=1859"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:58:46","slug":"heart-failure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cep.health\/e2p\/acute-care-tools\/heart-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Heart failure is one of the five leading causes of hospitalization and 30-day readmissions, and the most common cause of hospitalization for people over age 65. Appropriate care can improve a patient\u2019s quality of life and help with symptom management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-quaternary-100-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e1b83f1c753f9d0ad21c363bb66e87b5\"><strong>Benefits for Participating Hospitals<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Embeds best practice quality standards into hospital health information systems (HIS) to ensure alignment with existing clinical workflows &amp; localized differences in each hospital.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Offers enhanced order sets, patient-facing discharge summaries and clinician-facing discharge summaries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comes with project management support, clinical informatics thought leadership and funding to support resources to enhance HIS functionality while supporting localized differences in each environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-primary-50-background-color has-background has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:300\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;The work we have done [with E2P] has re-confirmed many of the clinical care standards we had in place as a regional cardiac centre.&nbsp;We enhanced the application of best practices, allowing any physician (not just cardiologists) with a patient in heart failure to use our heart failure orders and be guided through the best evidence-based care.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Dr. Amelia Yip, md<br>cardiologist, St. mary&#8217;s general hospital<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-light-color has-quaternary-100-background-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3e5f4f53 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>Interested in implementing E2P Heart Failure enhancements at your hospital? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-quaternary-100-color has-light-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=j2akM2Hot0uAhN7qNttdxv0Phu7GUoVDsKW18F1sfMpUNzczVE5IVTlTSjNQVUFKM0Q0UDExQlpYRCQlQCN0PWcu\"><strong><strong>Contact us!<\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-quaternary-100-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-48375df98205412728bc0d7b4d3b65f0\"><strong><strong>Hospital Implementation Partners<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>North York General Hospital, St. Mary\u2019s General Hospital, Erie Shores HealthCare, Scarborough Health Network, Campbellford Memorial Hospital, Lakeridge Health, Haliburton Highlands Health Services, Peterborough Regional Hospital, Ross Memorial Hospital, and Northumberland Hills Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-quaternary-100-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-8f255d426d963ac32f73cdbd0cc261b5\">Implementation and Change Management Support<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">oracle Toolkits<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/e2p\/wp-content\/uploads\/E2P_HF_PatientandProviderDischargeSummaryImplementationToolkit_Web-Ready_Accessible_FINAL-APRIL-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Patient and Provider Discharge Summary Implementation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/e2p\/wp-content\/uploads\/E2P_HF_OrderSetReviewToolkit_Web-Ready_Accessible_FINAL-NOV-30-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Order Set Review<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/e2p\/wp-content\/uploads\/E2P_HF_TerminologyMappingandReportingToolkit_Web-Ready_Accessible_FINAL-April-2-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Terminology Mapping and Reporting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EPIC Toolkits<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cep.health\/e2p\/wp-content\/uploads\/E2P-Heart-Failure-Toolkit-Epic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Heart Failure Toolkit <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-quaternary-100-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">Development Process<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>E2P heart failure tools were co-developed with cardiologists, primary care clinicians, individuals with lived experiences and implementation sites with user-centred design methodology and practice. End-users and clinical experts were also engaged to provide feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-quaternary-100-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">Topic Expert Group<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A warm thank you to the Topic Expert Group of acute and primary care clinicians, topic experts, and individuals with lived experience who supported the development of these tools and supports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Brenda Albuquerque-Boutilier, Lived Experience Advisor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ravi Bajaj, MD FRCPC FHRS CCDS CEPS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jo-Ann Fernando, RN, MN, CNCC (C)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greg Griffins, Lived Experience Advisor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Karen Harkness, RN PhD CCN (C) CHFN<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rahul Jain, MD, CCFP, MScCH (HPTE)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pamela Lai, MD, CCFP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robert McKelvie, MD, PhD, FRCPC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stacey Milo, MScN, NP-PHC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeff Myers, MD, MSEd, CCFP(PC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leah Steinberg, MD, MA, FCFP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Douglas Wan, MD BSc, MSc, FRCPC CCDS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With support from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Andrew Gentilin, RN(EC), MN-ACNP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stephanie Poon, MD, MSc, FRCPC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ilan Shahin MD-CM, MBA, CCFP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heart failure is one of the five leading causes of hospitalization and 30-day readmissions, and the most common cause of hospitalization for people over age 65. 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