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Improving Smoking Cessation via Decision Aid

This program at an urban safety net primary care clinic utilized motivational interviewing and a visual, easy-to-understand decision-making aid to promote smoking cessation.

Innovators

  • Sumit D. Agarwal, MD
  • Matthew Kerwin, MD
  • Jacob Meindertsma, MD
  • Andrew Wolf, MD

Improving Inpatient Safety Reporting via a Patient and Family-Facing App @ Brigham & Women’s Hospital

This program at an academic medical center utilized a patient and family-facing app to improve patient safety and communication between patients and their caregivers and…

Innovators

  • Brittany Couture, BS
  • Elizabeth Lilley
  • Frank Chang
  • Ann DeBord Smith
  • Jessica Cleveland
  • Awatef Ergai
  • Zachary Katsulis
  • James Benneyan
  • Esteban Gershanik
  • David W Bates, MD, MSc
  • Sarah A. Rossetti
  • Kumiko Schnock

Improving Lung Cancer Screening via Care Pathways @ Valley Medical Center

This program at an urban community hospital utilized a new lung cancer screening pathway to improve personalized preventive care. 

Innovators

  • Sahana Ingale, MBBS, MHPA
  • Kim Herner, MD
  • Travis Dalton, ARNP
  • Kirsten Warmington
  • Jean Borth, RN, CPHQ

Implementation of a Workplace Wellness Program @ the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

This randomized control trial (RCT) was conducted between August 9, 2016 to April 26, 2018  at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to determine the impact…

Innovators

  • David Molitor, PhD

eConsults for Infectious Diseases @ the University of Washington

An academic medical center demonstrated that eConsults for infectious disease (ID) can more efficiently provide primary care doctors with counsel on antimicrobials, recommended clinical evaluation,…

Innovators

  • Brian Wood, MD
  • Jessica Bender, MD
  • Sara Jackson, MD, MPH
  • Leah Rosengaus
  • Paul Pottinger, MD, DTM&H
  • Shireesha Dhanireddy, MD
  • Geoffrey Gottlieb, MD, PhD
  • Robert Harrington, MD
  • Yuliya Pruzhanskaya
  • Lisa Chew, MD, MPH
  • John Scott, PhD

Improving Well-Being Among Trainees: A Partnership to Reduce Barriers to Primary Care Services

To support physician wellness, an academic medical center created a concierge scheduling service with telehealth options for medical trainees, improving their perception of  healthcare access…

Innovators

  • Kevin Shah, MD, MBA
  • Catherine Kuhn, MD
  • Christelle Tan, BS
  • John Anderson, MD, MPH
  • Alexander Borun, MD
  • David A. Turner, MD
  • Krista Whalen, BS

Improving Obesity Management via Health Coaching & Video Conferencing @ VA of New York

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) conducted a pilot study of Goals for Eating and Moving (GEM), a primary-care-based weight management program utilizing volunteer student health…

Innovators

  • Clare Viglione, MPH
  • Dylaney Bouwman
  • Nadera Rahman
  • Yixin Fang
  • Jeannette M. Beasley, MPH, PhD
  • Scott Sherman, MD
  • Xavier Pi-Sunyer, MD, MPH
  • Judith Wylie-Rosett, Ed.D, RD
  • Craig Tenner, MD
  • Melanie Jay, MD, MS

Designing & Deploying Patient Self-Triage & Scheduler for COVID-19 @ UCSF

An academic medical center responded to the threat of COVID-19 by rapidly developing and deploying a patient-portal embedded self-triage and scheduler for primary care patients.

Innovators

  • Timothy Judson, MD, MPH
  • Anobel Y. Odisho, MD, MPH
  • Aaron B. Neinstein, MD
  • Jessica Chao, MBA, PharmD
  • Aimee Williams, MPH
  • Christopher Miller
  • Tim Moriarty, MBA, MA
  • Nathaniel Gleason, MD
  • Gina Intinarelli, RN, MS, PhD
  • Ralph Gonzales, MD, MSPH

Emergency Department Telemedicine Screening @ Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins evaluated whether triage screening of patients in the emergency department (ED) could be safely and efficiently performed using telescreening rather than in-person screening.

Innovators

  • Nicholas James Rademacher, MD
  • Gai Cole, MHA, MBA, DrPH
  • Kevin J Psoter, MPA, PhD
  • Gabor Kelen, MD
  • Jamie Wei Zhi Fan, MHA
  • Dennis Gordon
  • Junaid Razzak, MD, PhD, FACEP

Improving Hypertension Management via Recheck and Medication Intensification @ Cleveland Clinic

This project at an academic medical center utilized a quality improvement program focused on medication intensification and serial measurement to improve hypertension management.

Innovators

  • Elizabeth R. Pfoh, PhD
  • Kathryn Martinez, PhD
  • Nirav Vakharia, MD
  • Michael B. Rothberg, MD, MPH