Telehealth Learning Collaborative & Peer Insights
The American Heart Association Center for Telehealth® Learning Collaborative ecosystem advances real-world evidence by bringing together health care teams to learn from one another, use proven quality-improvement methods and apply expert guidance. This approach supports the development and growth of effective telehealth models for managing chronic cardiac conditions.
Key Components
- Process mapping: How diverse health systems implement virtual care for hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and heart failure.
- Quality improvement: Testing strategies to address site-identified challenges.
- Support & tracking: Quarterly calls, site consultations, and an Alliance Consortium to address shared needs.
- Metrics & data: Development of standardized measures (HEDIS, CMS, AHA-aligned), QCT platform data capture, and cohort benchmarking.
- Dissemination & education: Sharing models via podcasts, videos, posters, workshops, and conferences.
Initiative Learning Ecosystem
View the Initiative Learning Ecosystem infographic text (PDF)
Telehealth is here to stay—through learning, collaboration, and shared innovation in care.
Telehealth Learning Collaborative Sites
- Poster coming soon!
- Model of care video coming soon!
- Poster coming soon!
- Poster coming soon!
Connected Hearts
Our mini podcast series features clinicians and care teams who are putting telehealth into practice for chronic disease management. Episodes highlight real strategies, lessons learned, and innovations across remote monitoring, virtual workflows, pharmacy partnerships, and community support.
The series focuses on real implementation insights and shared learning, showing how teams are building sustainable programs, improving care coordination, and expanding access for patients.
Episode 1 - Pharmacists at the Heart of Telehealth: Expanding Access Through Team-Based Care
In this episode, hosts Sruthi Cherkur and Cayla Hadley highlight how pharmacists are transforming virtual care for patients with chronic cardiac conditions. Featuring teams from Promise Community Health Center and St. Vincent de Paul Charitable Pharmacy, the conversation explores innovative telehealth workflows, pharmacist-led care models, and the real-world impact on access, coordination, and outcomes. A practical look at the evolving role of pharmacists in telehealth and what’s next for team-based virtual care.
Episode 2 - Thinking Outside the Cholesterol Clinic: Digital Patient Empowerment Solutions for Managing LDL
This episode highlights Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Corrie Lipids Program, a digital model transforming how high-risk patients manage LDL cholesterol. Hosts Sruthi Cherkur and Cayla Hadley talk with Drs. Marvel, Kodukula, and Suresh about how app-based education, virtual cholesterol management, and guideline-driven pathways are empowering patients and improving preventive cardiac care.
Telehealth Expert Writing Committee
This multidisciplinary team of volunteer subject matter experts is collaborating to review the current evidence base and develop recommendations for delivering high‑quality telehealth care management for chronic cardiac disease. Their work aims to bridge a critical gap in the field by defining best practices that support effective, equitable, and scalable virtual cardiac care.
The group’s comprehensive review and consensus recommendations are currently in development. A forthcoming publication detailing their findings will be shared on this site as soon as it is available.
Meet the Experts
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| Ankeet Bhatt, MD, MBA, ScM Research Scientist, Division of Research Kaiser Permanente Northern California Associate Physician, Department of Cardiology Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center |
John Chuo, MD, MS Attending Neonatologist Neonatal Quality Officer Medical Director of Telemedicine Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
Nino Isakadze, MD, MHS Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellow, Johns Hopkins American Heart Association Health Technology and Information Scientifically Focused Research Network Fellow |
Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences Emory University School of Medicine |
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| Ritu Thamman, MD, FASE, FACC Associate Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburg School of Medicine |
Laura Rossi, PhD, RN, MS Assistant Professor, Simmons University Quality & Patient Safety, Massachusetts General Hospital |
Andrew R. Watson, MD, MLitt, FACS Professor of Surgery Vice-President, Clinical IT Transformation, UPMC International Division Medical Director, UPMC Telemedicine |
Alliance Consortium
The Telehealth Alliance Consortium brings together partners who share a commitment to advancing sustainable, equitable, high-quality telehealth across the continuum of care. Through this collaborative network, the American Heart Association and participating organizations combine their expertise to support the Pilot Telehealth Learning Collaborative, connecting outpatient clinics, industry leaders, and care teams to strengthen chronic disease management through coordinated, patient centered virtual care. By sharing insights, strategies, and real-world experience, the Consortium helps accelerate innovation, improve access, and enhance the value of telehealth across diverse healthcare settings.
We are deeply grateful to our Alliance Consortium members for their partnership and engagement. Your willingness to share knowledge, co-develop solutions, and invest in this work strengthens the entire learning community and supports better outcomes for the patients and communities we serve.
- Apex Clincial Services
- Avel eCare
- Ingenium Consulting
- National Association of Community Health Centers
- Northeast Telehealth Resource Center/MCD Global Health
- NorthWest Telehealth Resource Center
- QliqSOFT
- SmartMeter
- Southwest Telehealth Resource Center