Get With The Guidelines Health Impact Data
Improving health and well-being for everyone starts with understanding the full picture of what influences our health. Where people live, learn, work, and play can have an impact on their ability to prevent, manage, or recover from heart and brain related health conditions.
Factors such as access to affordable health care, safe housing, nutritious food, stable income, and education shape health outcomes in every community. When these opportunities are limited, so is the chance for a longer, healthier life.
At the American Heart Association, we use science to guide action. By identifying and removing long-standing barriers to care, we work alongside communities to build improve heart and brain health for everyone, everywhere. Because everyone deserves the opportunity to live a longer, healthier life.How Can Your Hospital Impact Health?
In 2021, Get With The Guidelines registries added data fields across all programs for the collection and analysis of demographic and social drivers of health data.
The American Heart Association encourages hospitals to enter these data. The reports generated from these data can be examined down to the individual patient level to identify care variation, drive process improvement, and contribute to academic research.
Impact to Your Community
Impact to the Industry
At its core, Get With The Guidelines® is a powerful tool for understanding how care shows up in real people's lives.
The insights drawn from this data have fueled peer-reviewed studies that shine a light on how treatment patterns and outcomes vary across communities. Even when providers are following clinical guidelines, the outcomes don’t always look the same.
By lifting up these patterns, we’re helping the industry see where care can be more personalized and more effective.
Health Education for Professionals
- Access an online, self-paced learning environment designed for busy healthcare professionals.
- Deepen your understanding of how social drivers of health shape patient outcomes and care experiences.
- Discover actionable solutions that support more personalized, equitable care across diverse communities.
- Earn continuing education (CE) credits while advancing skills that improve both outcomes and trust.
Support from The Heart
Our team of quality improvement program consultants support hospitals in driving change that will create lasting quality of care for all patients.