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…
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…
Improving Primary Care Patient Satisfaction via Medical Scribes @ University of Missouri
This program in an academic adult general medicine primary care practice utilized medical scribes in primary care visits to increase both patient satisfaction and provider…
Improving Antibiotic Stewardship via Nurse Phone Triage @ Stanford Health Care
A multidisciplinary team at Stanford Health Care created a nurse telephone triage protocol to improve guideline-concordant prescription of appropriate antibiotics for uncomplicated cystitis to help…
Team-Based Care @ Bellin Health
The care team at Bellin Health Center holds weekly interdisciplinary meetings for discussion of high-risk patients in order to alleviate health worker burnout and to…
Improving Transition Care via EHR Hospital Use Data @ Northwestern Medicine Group Transitional Care Clinic
The Northwestern Medicine Group Transitional Care clinic (NMG-TC) seeks to reduce preventable re-hospitalization by implementing a model of intensive case management and integrated behavioral/medical healthcare…
Improving Primary Care Mental Health Services via Psychiatric eConsults @ Allina Health
Allina Health implemented an EHR-integrated psychiatric eConsult service in an effort to provide support for primary care providers (PCPs) in treating patients with mental illness.
Improving Women’s Health with Virtual Consultation via Specialty Care Access Network-Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (SCAN-ECHO) @ VHA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System adapted SCAN-ECHO to provide primary care providers (PCPs) with Women’s Health (WH) education and virtual consultations in an…
Preventing Readmission via Discharge Readiness Assessments @ Magnet Hospitals
33 magnet-designated hospitals integrated the use of structured nurse assessments of patient readiness for discharge into medical surgical unit discharge practices in an effort to…
Increasing Rates of School Hearing Screening via Telemedicine @ Rural Public Health System in Alaska
This project aimed to improve timely identification and treatment of childhood hearing loss by implementing a mobile health (mHealth) hearing screen followed by expedited telemedicine…