What's New in 2006

The Continuing Medical Implementation® Website www.cvtoolbox.com has seen ongoing growth in activity with over 2,000,000 pageviews and over 7,000,000 hits in the last year. This includes over 73,000 sessions and over 73 GB of data transferred. The CVToolbox™ has become a premier Continuing Medical Implementation^® (CMI) site. There is not an equivalent patient health management site in terms of concept, scope or content. The CVToolbox™ will help change the way we access, translate, utilize and integrate knowledge into practice. This paradigm shift from CME to CPD to CMI is essential in order to Bridge the Care Gap. We thank you for visiting this site and encourage you to make your colleagues and patients aware of this unique web resource.

The Changes
The site has undergone considerable expansion since initiation. New sections and updates have appeared in the areas of chest pain evaluation and anti-anginal therapeutic strategy, acute coronary syndromes (ACS) slideshow, ACS nomenclature and ACS management, post MI risk stratification and post MI pharmacotherapy, atrial fibrillation management, congestive heart failure management, hypertension evidence and management, cardiac physical examination slideshows, links and heart sounds and ECG rounds.

A large number of other slide shows have been added and are available for download. The links section has been expanded to include a broad range of CME sites, cardiology portals, journal links and patient education links. The Sponsors Page has been updated to include links to key clinical trials.

The Guide for Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention and the Heart Failure Survival Kit have been updated and expanded. The Guide for Comprehensive Risk Reduction and Guide for Heart Failure Management have been updated to synchronize with the latest evidence and Guideline updates. The Statin Cost Efficacy Grid has been revised to reflect updated pricing and anticipated CWG Guideline revisions. New links have been added to the Risk Calculators and CVD in Women pages.

The Atrial Fibrillation section has been updated to highlight with the latest CCS Consensus Conference. The Congestive Heart Failure section has been updated to incorporate the latest antiarrhythmic device evidence. The Hypertension section has been updated to incorporate the 2005/2006 CHEP Guidelines for diagnosis and management of hypertension.

The site has been reviewed in the ON the Net feature of the CMAJ. Click here to read the review.

Navigation of the site has improved with a Guided Tour for patients and Key links to trials and implementation tools for physicians and other medical and paramedical visitors.

Both The Guide for Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention and The Heart Failure Survival Kit have been comprehensively updated.

Our sponsorship has continued to grow with several new unrestricted industry partners "Working together to market knowledge."

Continuing Medical Implementation would again like to thanks our visitors and sponsors in helping to accomplish our mission. Your continuing feedback is important in helping to improve this site.

Joel Niznick MD FRCPC
Assistant Professor-Division of Cardiology
Ottawa General & Riverside Sites - Ottawa Hospital
Managing Partner-Ottawa Cardiovascular Centre
Chairman-CONDOR Medical Implementation Network
President-Continuing Medical Implementation Inc.