# Opportunities to link Heart Failure Guidelines and chronic disease management—preliminary considerations

## TL;DR

This paper explores how heart failure guidelines can be integrated into chronic disease management to improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.

## Contribution

The paper proposes new models of care that integrate heart failure management into broader chronic disease frameworks.

## Key findings

- Current chronic disease management lacks effective community-based models to reduce readmissions and costs.
- Heart failure guidelines could serve as a foundation for broader chronic disease management systems.
- Future models should focus on access, collaboration, and innovative health services.

## Abstract

Enhancing community based Chronic Disease Management (CDM)
will make significant impacts on all major chronic disease management outcome
measures. There are no successful models of community hubs to triage and manage
chronic diseases that significantly reduce readmissions, cost and improve chronic
disease knowledge. Chronic heart failure (CHF) management foundations are built
on guideline derived medical therapies (GDMT). These consensuses evidenced
building blocks have to be interwoven into systems and processes of care which
create access, collaboration and coordinate effective and innovative health
services.

Perspective and short communication.

This review explores: (i) conventional chronic disease
management in Australia; (ii) Possible options for future chronic diseases models
of care that deliver key components of CHF management.