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Diversifying and Enhancing the Primary Care Workforce with On-Demand Clinical Pharmacist eConsults

This pilot program at a community health center utilized pharmacist eConsults to improve quality of care for medication-related problems in primary care practices.

Innovators

  • Marie Smith, Pharm.D, FNAP
  • Erika Vuernick, Pharm.D, CDOE
  • Daren Anderson, MD
  • James Thurston, Pharm.D Candidate

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

Improving Evidence-Based Statin Guideline Implementation via Practice Coaches & Risk Stratification @ North Carolina Independent Practices

This project at community-based primary care clinics utilized a health data registry identifying patients at higher risk of cardiovascular disease-related complications to improve statin therapy…

Innovators

  • Samuel Cykert, MD
  • Justin Trogdon, PhD
  • Darren DeWalt, MD, MPH
  • Michael Pignone, MD, MPH
  • Bryan Weiner, PhD

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

Improving Hypertension Management in Immigrant Communities via EHR-Based Intervention @ New York City Primary Care Practices

Project IMPACT (Implementing Million Hearts for Provider and Community Transformation) examines the effect of a multilevel EHR intervention on hypertension control among patients of New…

Innovators

  • Priscilla M. Lopez, MPH
  • Anna Divney, DrPH
  • Keith Goldfeld, DrPH
  • Jennifer Zanowiak, MA
  • Radhika Gore, PhD
  • Rashi Kumar, MUP
  • Phoebe Laughlin, MS
  • Ronald Sanchez, MPH
  • Susan Beane, MD
  • Chau Trinh-Shevrin, PhD
  • Lorna Thorpe, PhD, MPH
  • Nadia Islam, PhD

Improving Diabetes Care via Medical Assistants and Community Health Workers @ Northern California Community Health Centers

This project at a group of community health centers implemented a new medical assistant and community health worker-led diabetes care management program to study differential…

Innovators

  • Hector P. Rodriguez, MD, MPH
  • Mark W. Friedberg, MD
  • Arturo Vargas-Bustamante, PhD, MA, MPP
  • Xiao Chen, PhD
  • Ana E. Martinez, MPH
  • Dylan H. Roby, PhD

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

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…

Innovators

  • Robert Lancey, MD
  • Jay Bridgeman MD
  • Abu Mosa, PhD
  • David Moxley, MLS