Heart Risa CommunityHeart Risa
A multistakeholder membership collaborative administered by COIM Inc. Heart Risa brings together survivors, caregivers, advocates, clinicians, researchers, educators, students, innovators, community organizations, health systems, nonprofit organizations, technology teams, and industry collaborators. It supports education, research, digital health, responsible artificial intelligence, cardiovascular wellness, cancer survivorship, innovation, implementation, and community engagement. The name carries themes of cardiovascular health, compassion, smiling, warmth, resilience, renewal, hope, and human connection.
Heart Risa CommunityStakeholder Driven Cardio-Oncology Insights
A foundational Heart Risa approach that gathers and applies perspectives from survivors, caregivers, advocates, clinicians, researchers, communities, and other contributors. These insights may address care barriers, educational needs, digital preferences, navigation, culturally responsive support, psychosocial experiences, cardiovascular health, and survivorship priorities.
Heart Risa CommunityHeart Risa Member
A person or organization with an active Heart Risa membership or approved access level. Membership may provide access to community spaces, educational resources, programs, tools, research opportunities, and collaborative activities according to the applicable membership level.
Heart Risa CommunityStrategic Partner
An independent organization collaborating with Heart Risa around shared goals, programs, resources, education, research, outreach, or implementation. Strategic partner status preserves the independent identity and governance of every participating organization.
Heart Risa CommunityLived Experience Contributor
A survivor, patient, caregiver, family member, or advocate who contributes knowledge grounded in personal experience. Lived experience can inform research priorities, educational resources, technology development, program design, and implementation.
Heart Risa CommunityOpen Access Learner
A visitor who uses publicly available Heart Risa education or resources without entering a restricted membership, research, or professional area.
Heart Risa CommunityEarly Career Participant
A student, intern, trainee, fellow, emerging researcher, or early career professional participating in approved Heart Risa education, mentorship, research, or project activities.
OrganizationsCOIM Inc.
Cardiology Oncology Innovations Management Inc. is the organization that administers Heart Risa. COIM Inc. provides partnership coordination, contracting, standards, management infrastructure, platform operations, and ecosystem-level oversight.
OrganizationsHeart Spark Ecosystem
A group of separately governed organizations connected through shared leadership, management relationships, aligned missions, or collaborative programs. The ecosystem spans clinical care, research, innovation, technology, education, consulting, nonprofit service, advocacy, outreach, and workforce development.
OrganizationsSeparate Legal Entity
An organization with its own legal existence, governing documents, finances, responsibilities, intellectual property, professional obligations, and decision-making authority. Every Heart Spark ecosystem participant retains its distinct legal identity.
OrganizationsThe CardioOnc Bridge
A COIM Inc. business identity supporting management services, operational systems, network infrastructure, partnerships, and connections across cardio-oncology, cancer survivorship, research, clinical care, and implementation.
OrganizationsSpark CardioOnc Solutions
A COIM Inc. business identity supporting technology, platform development, innovation, intellectual property, and responsible co-development of digital-health solutions.
OrganizationsHeart Prosper P.C.
A Heart Spark professional entity providing oversight and support for aligned professional and healthcare-delivery initiatives within its authorized scope.
OrganizationsPreventive Cardio-Oncology LLC
A management-services organization, internship host, and network-management hub supporting operations, education, workforce development, and cardio-oncology initiatives.
OrganizationsMy Heart Spark P.C.
A national virtual cardiology practice and innovation hub supporting cardiovascular care, preventive cardiology, cardio-oncology, wellness, telehealth, and technology-enabled healthcare delivery.
OrganizationsHeart Spark Tech
A business identity of My Heart Spark P.C. supporting technology-enabled clinical and healthcare innovation activities.
OrganizationsMy Heart Opulence LLC
A Heart Spark entity advancing research, innovation, education, equity, and scholarly collaboration.
OrganizationsHeart Innovation & Equity Research Institute
The research and education identity of My Heart Opulence LLC. The Institute supports research development, innovation, equity, education, emerging investigators, and independent verification and validation activities.
OrganizationsHeart Risk Tech LLC
A separate technology company developing and licensing cardiovascular-risk assessment tools and related digital-health applications.
OrganizationsDr. Brown Cares LLC
A consulting and digital-scholarship company supporting education, thought leadership, interdisciplinary knowledge translation, and professional consulting.
OrganizationsMy Life Spark P.C.
A professional entity supporting the development of independent, locally responsive medical-practice models and healthcare enterprises.
OrganizationsMy Heart Spark Foundation, Inc.
A nonprofit member of the Heart Spark ecosystem supporting charitable, educational, research, advocacy, outreach, and implementation activities.
OrganizationsHeart Spark Research, Innovation, and Implementation
The nonprofit program identity of My Heart Spark Foundation, Inc. It advances research, innovation, implementation, education, advocacy, outreach, and community-facing initiatives.
CSPN CollaborationCSPN
The Cancer Survivorship & Supportive Care Professionals Network. CSPN is an independent external strategic partner collaborating with Heart Risa and COIM Inc.
CSPN CollaborationCSPN Collaboration
The Heart Risa programs, resources, membership pathways, research opportunities, educational activities, and working-group initiatives developed for or with CSPN members. The collaboration falls under Heart Risa and is administered by COIM Inc.
CSPN CollaborationCSPN Member Pathway
The dedicated Heart Risa entry point through which CSPN members can explore membership access, working-group participation, digital resources, research opportunities, and collaboration benefits.
CSPN CollaborationCardio-Oncology Digital Health and Innovation Working Group
A Heart Risa working group created through the CSPN collaboration and led by COIM Inc. It brings together professional expertise, lived experience, research, digital health, responsible artificial intelligence, implementation, education, and technology evaluation.
CSPN CollaborationWorking-Group Member
An approved participant in the Cardio-Oncology Digital Health and Innovation Working Group. Participation may include meetings, discussions, education, tool evaluation, feedback, research invitations, implementation projects, and resource development.
CSPN CollaborationWorking-Group Participation
Participation in scheduled or asynchronous working-group activities. Participation remains within the approved scope and does not itself enroll a person in research or authorize representation of Heart Risa, CSPN, COIM Inc., or an ecosystem entity.
CSPN CollaborationFirst 100 Member Benefit
The partnership benefit through which the first 100 eligible working-group members may receive no-cost standard Heart Risa platform access for life in connection with ongoing feedback and eligible research-participation opportunities. Research participation remains voluntary and follows applicable eligibility, information, consent, privacy, and review requirements.
CSPN CollaborationCSPN Member Discount
A partnership benefit that may provide eligible CSPN members with reduced pricing or dedicated access after the first 100 eligible lifetime-access positions have been filled.
Programs and ParticipationWorking Group
A structured collaborative community focused on a defined subject, challenge, population, or initiative.
Programs and ParticipationListening Session
A facilitated conversation designed to gather experiences, needs, priorities, barriers, and ideas from community members or other stakeholders.
Programs and ParticipationTwelve-Week Engagement Cycle
A structured Heart Risa participation period that may include orientation, community discussion, education, resource exploration, feedback, project development, research engagement, and reflection.
Programs and ParticipationSurvivorship Innovation Collaborative
A Heart Risa initiative connecting lived experience, professional expertise, research, technology, education, and implementation to address priorities across and beyond the cancer journey.
Programs and ParticipationSurvivor Education Academy
A Heart Risa educational pathway offering accessible learning related to survivorship, cardiovascular health, navigation, wellness, research, digital health, and supportive care.
Programs and ParticipationDigital Companion Platform
A Heart Risa digital environment supporting education, navigation, resources, engagement, and approved program or research activities.
Programs and ParticipationKnowledge Hub
A searchable collection of educational resources, practical tools, recordings, articles, research information, and implementation materials.
Programs and ParticipationDigital Tools Library
A curated collection of digital-health tools, demonstrations, educational resources, and supporting information. Inclusion identifies a resource for exploration and does not itself establish clinical endorsement.
Programs and ParticipationInternship Pathway
A supervised learning experience through which interns contribute to assigned Heart Risa or ecosystem projects within defined roles and permissions.
Programs and ParticipationMentor
An approved individual who provides guidance, education, feedback, or professional development support within an assigned program.
Programs and ParticipationProject Lead
The person authorized to coordinate a defined project, clarify responsibilities, monitor progress, and route substantive decisions through the appropriate organizational leadership.
Programs and ParticipationAssigned Scope
The activities, permissions, responsibilities, and boundaries formally assigned to a participant. Interns, volunteers, working-group members, and collaborators remain within their assigned scopes.
Research and EvidenceResearch Program
A structured Heart Risa pathway through which eligible individuals may learn about or participate in approved research activities.
Research and EvidenceResearch Participation
Voluntary involvement in a research activity after applicable study information, eligibility review, consent, privacy protections, and institutional or regulatory requirements have been addressed.
Research and EvidenceResearch Interest
A person’s indication that they would like to learn about research opportunities. Expressing interest is separate from enrollment and informed consent.
Research and EvidenceInformed Consent
A process through which a prospective research participant receives information about a study, considers its purpose, procedures, potential risks, potential benefits, privacy provisions, and alternatives, and voluntarily decides whether to participate.
Research and EvidenceInstitutional Review Board (IRB)
An independent committee that reviews research involving people to help protect participants’ rights, safety, and welfare.
Research and EvidenceEligible Research Opportunity
A research activity for which a prospective participant appears to meet stated participation criteria. Final eligibility is determined through the approved study process.
Research and EvidenceDe-Identified Data
Information processed to remove or reduce identifiers that could reasonably connect the data to a specific individual, according to the applicable standard and approved use.
Research and EvidenceData Governance
The policies, responsibilities, controls, and decision processes governing how data are collected, accessed, used, protected, retained, shared, and removed.
Research and EvidenceImplementation
The structured process of putting an evidence-informed program, practice, tool, or pathway into use within a real setting.
Research and EvidenceImplementation Science
The study of methods that support the adoption, integration, sustainability, and equitable delivery of evidence-informed practices.
Research and EvidenceDissemination
The planned sharing of findings, resources, lessons, or tools with audiences that can use them.
Research and EvidenceIndependent Verification and Validation
A structured review conducted with appropriate independence to examine whether a tool, process, model, or product meets defined requirements and performs as intended.
Digital Health and Responsible AIDigital Health
The use of digital technologies to support health education, communication, navigation, research, care delivery, monitoring, wellness, and health-system improvement.
Digital Health and Responsible AIResponsible Artificial Intelligence
The design and use of artificial intelligence with appropriate attention to safety, privacy, transparency, explainability, fairness, human oversight, accountability, and intended-use boundaries.
Digital Health and Responsible AIArtificial Intelligence Assisted
A description indicating that artificial intelligence contributes to a task while authorized people retain appropriate oversight, review, and decision authority.
Digital Health and Responsible AIHuman Oversight
Review, supervision, or decision-making performed by an appropriately authorized person when a digital or artificial-intelligence system contributes information or recommendations.
Digital Health and Responsible AIExplainability
The ability to provide understandable information about how an artificial-intelligence system reached or supported an output.
Digital Health and Responsible AIBias Mitigation
Processes intended to identify, evaluate, reduce, and monitor unfair or systematically unequal performance across people or populations.
Digital Health and Responsible AIDecision Support
Information or analysis designed to assist an authorized person. Decision support informs judgment within its intended use; diagnosis and treatment remain with appropriately qualified professionals.
Digital Health and Responsible AIRemote Monitoring
The use of approved technology to collect or review health-related information while a participant or patient is outside a traditional in-person setting.
Digital Health and Responsible AITechnology Demonstration
An educational presentation showing how a technology works, what purpose it may serve, and which questions merit consideration. A demonstration stands separately from clinical effectiveness, regulatory authorization, and endorsement.
Digital Health and Responsible AIEmerging Tool
A technology, platform, model, or resource undergoing development, evaluation, early implementation, or refinement.
Digital Health and Responsible AICo-Development
A structured collaboration in which authorized contributors help design, test, evaluate, or improve a technology, resource, program, or implementation approach.
Digital Health and Responsible AIUsability Testing
A structured evaluation of how easily intended users can understand, navigate, and use a tool or resource.
Clinical and HealthCardio-Oncology
A field focused on cardiovascular health in people affected by cancer, including prevention, identification, and management of cardiovascular risks or complications associated with cancer, cancer treatment, shared risk factors, and survivorship.
Clinical and HealthPreventive Cardio-Oncology
An approach emphasizing early cardiovascular-risk assessment, prevention, monitoring, education, and timely intervention across the cancer journey.
Clinical and HealthCancer Survivorship
The experience of living with, through, and beyond cancer. Survivorship may include physical, cardiovascular, emotional, social, financial, functional, and long-term health considerations.
Clinical and HealthSupportive Care
Services and interventions that address symptoms, quality of life, function, emotional well-being, navigation, caregiver needs, and other concerns arising during or after cancer care.
Clinical and HealthCardiovascular Risk Assessment
A structured evaluation of factors associated with the future likelihood of cardiovascular disease or complications.
Clinical and HealthVirtual Cardiology
Cardiology services delivered through approved telehealth and digital-care pathways by appropriately licensed professionals.
Clinical and HealthInterprofessional eConsult
A structured electronic consultation through which one healthcare professional requests guidance from another professional. It supports professional collaboration within its documented scope.
Clinical and HealthClinical Independence
The authority and responsibility of a licensed clinician to exercise professional judgment according to applicable law, ethical duties, clinical standards, and the needs of the individual patient.
Clinical and HealthPatient Education
Information designed to help people understand health conditions, care pathways, risks, questions, and available resources. Individualized medical guidance comes from a qualified member of the person’s care team.
Privacy, Access, and SafetyPublic Resource
Content available to visitors without restricted membership or program enrollment.
Privacy, Access, and SafetyStandard Access
The baseline Heart Risa membership level providing the features and resources identified on the current membership or pricing page.
Privacy, Access, and SafetyRestricted Area
A section available only to authorized members, research participants, interns, administrators, partners, or other approved users.
Privacy, Access, and SafetyRole-Based Access
A system that provides features or information according to a user’s approved role and permissions.
Privacy, Access, and SafetyConfidential Information
Information designated as private or protected by law, agreement, policy, professional duty, or organizational requirements.
Privacy, Access, and SafetyProtected Health Information (PHI)
Individually identifiable health information protected under applicable health-privacy requirements.
Privacy, Access, and SafetyPersonally Identifiable Information (PII)
Information that identifies or could reasonably be connected with a specific person.
Privacy, Access, and SafetyConflict of Interest
A financial, professional, organizational, or personal interest that could influence or appear to influence a person’s judgment, recommendations, research, or participation.
Privacy, Access, and SafetyEndorsement
An explicit statement of approval or recommendation by an authorized organization. Partnership, listing, participation, demonstration, sponsorship, or library inclusion each carries the meaning stated for that activity.
Privacy, Access, and SafetyEscalation
The process of referring a question, risk, incident, commitment, or decision to the person or organization with the authority and expertise to address it.