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Heart of the Matter
Designing the American Heart Association's "Health Coach System" through online and face-to-face collaboration
May 1, 2003
By: Langdon Morris
Learning and Training Innovations Magazine

Nearly a million Americans will die as a result of vascular diseases this year. In fact, heart attack, stroke, and heart failure kill more Americans than any other disease, causing nearly twice the number of deaths as all cancers combined. But this is not a new problem-vascular diseases were the number one killer of Americans in every year of the 20th century except 1918, when a massive flu epidemic swept the world.

Not long ago the American Heart Association approached a team from Stanford University School of Medicine with the intention of changing that. The Stanford Cardiac Rehabilitation Program team worked with InnovationLabs to begin developing a national education program.