title: Opportunities for multidisciplinary ASH clinical hypertension specialists in an era of population health and accountable care: ASH leadership message.
abstract: The ASH hypertension specialists and ASH clinical and comprehensive hypertension centers represent a continuum of expertise and capacity positioned to play a major role in advancing the Triple Aim, which includes improving the patient care experience, population health, and value in cardiovascular health promotion and disease prevention. The ASH hypertension specialists board is dedicated to testing and designating a broad range of qualified health care professionals as clinical hypertension specialists. A continuing partnership with ASH, recognizing the need for an appropriate firewall between education and testing, is essential in providing the education and training programs required to grow and sustain the specialized workforce required to translate current evidence and future advances in personalized medicine into better care for individuals, better health for populations, and better value for payers. Moreover, growth of the ASH hypertension registry has the potential to accelerate advances in education and patient care as noted previously. The ASH hypertension specialists board is excited about the opportunities available to a well-trained and collaborative multidisciplinary group of clinical hypertension specialists in an era of ACOs pursuing the Triple Aim.
authors: Care Coordination Institute, University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Greenville, Greenville, SC, USA. Electronic address: began@ccihealth.org.
authors: Brent M
authors: BM
authors: Egan
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000517:prevention & control*; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007857:Leadership; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000592:standards*; D011634:Public Health; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States