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Improving Opioid Management via Virtual Primary Care @ Rural VA Clinics

This project utilized virtual care to reduce inappropriate patient opioid use and increase patient safety around opioid use within a network of rural Veterans Affairs…

Innovators

  • Anna Abramson, MD
  • Henry Crevensten, MD

Increasing Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Rates via eConsults @ University of Virginia

A team at the University of Virginia utilized a retina-imaging device for screening coupled with workflows for ophthalmologists to remotely review and manage detected pathology…

Innovators

  • Kim Dowdell, MD
  • Samuel Collins, MSc
  • Kerry Cotter, MPH
  • Arjun Dirghangi, MD
  • Ira Helenius, MD, MPH

Medical Scribes in Primary Care at Brigham & Women’s Hospital – South Huntington

A 6-month pilot of medical scribes as documentation partners in primary care

Innovators

  • Erika Pabo MD MBA

Improving Pediatric Nutrition Screening via EHR Tool for Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Tracking @ Wake Forest University Health Sciences

This project at several academic medical center-affiliated pediatric primary care practices utilized an electronic health record screening tool for sugar-sweetened beverage and 100% fruit juice…

Innovators

  • Kristina H, Lewis, MD, MPH, SM
  • Joseph A. Skelton, MD, MS
  • Fang-Chi Hsu, PhD
  • Pascaline Ezouah, BS
  • Elsie M. Taveras, MD, MPH
  • Jason P. Block, MD

Improving Blood Pressure Control & Medication Adherence via Smartphone App @ Sites Nationwide

This project with participants recruited online across the nation utilized a smartphone app-based program to improve hypertension outcomes. The objective of this trial was to determine…

Innovators

  • Kyle Morawski, MD, MPH
  • Roya Ghazinouri, PT, DPT, MS
  • Alexis Krumme, MS
  • Julie C. Lauffenburger, PharmD, PhD
  • Zhigang Lu, MD
  • Erin Durfee, BS
  • Leslie Oley, MS
  • Jessica Lee, BA
  • Namita Mohta, MD
  • Nancy Haff, MD
  • Jessie L. Juusola, PhD
  • Niteesh K. Choudhry, MD, PhD

Improving Chronic Opioid Management Safety via Care Pathways @ Valley Medical Center

This program at an urban community hospital utilized implementation of evidence-based opioid therapy best practices including EHR prompts and prescription drug monitoring database integration to…

Innovators

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

Managing Critical Radiology Results via an Automatic Notification Tool

This project at an academic medical center developed an automated alert notification system for communicating critical imaging results to increase adherence to institutional policy and…

Innovators

  • Christopher Roy, MD
  • Tejal Gandhi
  • Anuj K. Dalal, MD
  • Ramin Khorasani

Reducing Medical Errors via Web-Based Handoff Tool @ Brigham & Women’s Hospital

This project at an academic medical center implemented a web-based handoff tool and training for health care personnel to reduce medical errors in the care…

Innovators

  • Stephanie K. Mueller, MD, MPH
  • Catherine S. Yoon, MS
  • Jeffrey L. Schnipper, MD, MPH

Improving Specialty Care via Electronic Referral System @ Brigham & Women’s Hospital

This project at an academic medical center utilized an electronic specialty referral system integrated into the EHR to improve physician satisfaction with the referral process,…

Innovators

  • Michael L. Barnett, MD
  • Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH
  • Joseph P. Frolkis, MD, PhD
  • Melissa Spinks, MBA
  • Casey Steiger, BS
  • Brandon Hehir, MBA
  • Jeffrey O. Greenberg, MD, MBA

Reducing Medication Errors via Prescription Error Screening Software @ Partners Healthcare

This project at an academic health system utilized machine learning to analyze software-generated outlier prescription alerts from a dataset of EHR records to systematically evaluate the…

Innovators

  • Gordon D Schiff, MD
  • Lynn A Volk, MHS
  • Mayya Volodarskaya
  • Deborah H Williams, MSA
  • Lake Walsh
  • Sara G Myers
  • David W Bates, MD, MSc
  • Ronen Rozenblum, PhD, MPH