Your Heart Forecast – IHIC

The leading CVD Risk visualisation tool for clinicians and patients, communicating CVD Risk using a trajectory approach.

• Patient specific, highly relevant to individuals
• Pictorial / story board approach, easy to understand
• Generates a ‘Heart Age’ for your patient
• Implements the NZ based, CVD Risk Assessment guidelines
• Evidence based, NZGG guidelines
• Created with credible partners;
• University of Auckland (SoPH) and Heart Foundation of NZ
• Integrated into PREDICT CVD-Diabetes

Communicate CVD Risk to your patients; drive early patient engagement over lifestyle interventions. Show patients the difference they can make to their future health.

Benefits of Your Heart Forecast

For Providers

• Visually show the degree of CVD Risk
• Determine the ideal risk level of your patient
• Show how far from an ideal risk level they are
• Calculate a ‘Heart Age’ for each patient
• Project future risk as your patient ages
• Interactively demonstrate the effect of
• changing modifiable risk factors (smoking)
• Provide a printable summary
• Invite your patient to re-play their forecast at home or at work

For Patients

• View your CVD risk level and categorisation Understand how far from an ideal profile you currently are, expressed both graphically and also as a ‘Heart Age’
• See how your risk will vary as you age, and when you may need to start medication
• Use the ‘WHAT-IF’ section to see how you can alter your risk, see the effect of each change
• See the difference that quitting smoking makes
• Get a personalised invitation to re-play the forecast on the Heart Foundation’s website (Know Your Numbers)
• Use Your Heart Forecast at home and talk with your family about what this means to you and the changes which you need to make
• Decide to make lifestyle changes to avoid necessary medication or hospitalisation

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