Live Session Abstracts | Quality Improvement Journeys with Your Peers - 2025 Quality Summit Presentation (Non-CE)-Live Session Abstracts | Quality Improvement Journeys with Your Peers

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The session highlights three innovative approaches driving clinical excellence in cardiovascular care: legislative policy change, AI-supported data abstraction, and shared decision-making integrated into electronic medical records (EMR).<br /><br />Amy Quinlan from Central State Medical Center detailed their transformational journey overcoming legislative barriers to establish a high-quality cardiovascular and cardiothoracic program. Key strategies included developing strategic partnerships, investing in advanced catheterization labs, implementing data-driven clinical pathways, and pursuing formal accreditations. These efforts improved treatment times, care protocols, and patient outcomes in a competitive New Jersey healthcare market.<br /><br />Katie and her team from Northeast Georgia Health System focused on leveraging AI technology to increase data abstraction efficiency from cardiovascular registries. Partnering with Health Elements, they employed a large language model to automate data processing, achieving over 96% accuracy. This innovation expanded their quality improvement capacity despite staffing constraints, emphasizing iterative learning and collaboration.<br /><br />Priya Padmanabhan from Heart Hospital shared their integration of shared decision-making documentation into the EMR for electrophysiology device implantation, meeting CMS mandates. Through stakeholder engagement, physician training, and registry monitoring, they increased documentation compliance from 91.7% to 100%, enhancing legal compliance and patient-centered care.<br /><br />Collectively, these presentations showcase how clinician leaders are advancing quality cardiovascular care by embracing policy reform, technological innovation, and patient empowerment.

Keywords

public reporting

cardiovascular healthcare

National Cardiovascular Data Registry

healthcare quality measurement

transparency

accountability

risk aversion

clinical registries

hospital rankings

transcatheter aortic valve replacement

cardiovascular care

legislative policy change

AI-supported data abstraction

shared decision-making

electronic medical records

clinical excellence

cardiothoracic program

quality improvement

patient-centered care