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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

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

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

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…

Innovators

  • Lori Guelman, FNP
  • Kelly Sanderson, FNP
  • Marcie Levine, MD
  • Mark Ramirez

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…

Innovators

  • James Jerzak, MD
  • Kathy Kerscher

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.

Innovators

  • Ezra Golberstein, PhD
  • Sarah Kolvenbach MHA/MBA
  • Benjamin Druss MD MPH
  • Paul Goering MD
  • Hilary Carruthers MHA/MBA

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…

Innovators

  • Donna L. Washington MD, MPH
  • Mark Canning, BA
  • Herschel Knapp PhD, MSSW
  • Lisa Altman MD
  • Joann O. Saavedra MSN, RN, NP-C
  • Laure Veet MD
  • Jessica L. Zuchowski PhD, MPH
  • Kristina M. Cordasco MD, MPH, MSHS
  • Alison B. Hamilton PhD, MPH
  • Susan Kirsh MD, MPH

Improving Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder via Integrated Behavioral Health @ Rural FQHC in Oregon

Masters and doctoral level mental health clinicians are integrated onto primary health care teams to address the biopsychosocial needs of patients in medication assisted treatment…

Innovators

  • Rebecca E. Cantone, MD
  • Nicholas Gideonse, MD
  • Joan Fleishman, PsyD
  • Brian Garvey, MD, MPH

Remote Glucose Monitoring via Computerized Insulin Dosing @ Venice Clinic

A safety net clinic implemented a remote glucose monitoring intervention via computerized algorithms for insulin dose adjustments in order to to help clinicians make dosing…

Innovators

  • S. Joshua Davidson
  • Mayer B. Davidson, M.D.

Improving In-Hospital Communication via Smartphones @ University of Maryland

The University of Maryland school of medicine aimed to improve inefficiencies of clinical workflows through implementation of a mobile telephone communication system in a NICU.…

Innovators

  • Dina El Metwally
  • Samuel Gurmu, MD
  • Ahad Azeem
  • Colleen A. Hughes Driscoll, MD