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Improving Social Determinants of Health Assessments @ Boston Children’s Hospital Primary Care Network

This project with the Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s (PPOC) utilized a social  health needs assessment screening tool to improve primary care providers’ capacity to…

Innovators

  • Jane Bittner, MPH, CPH
  • Nicole Pelletier, MPH
  • Emily Trudell Correa, MPH, MS
  • Jonathan Hatoun, MD, MPH, MS
  • Sara Donahue, DrPH
  • Louis Vernacchio, MD, MSc

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

Creating Value for Communities by Investing in Housing @ LA County Department of Health

In 2012, LA County Department of Health Services addressed homelessness and associated poor health outcomes via a multi-pronged, comprehensive housing program called Housing for Health…

Innovators

  • Reshma Gupta, MD, MSHPM
  • Mark Ghaly, MD, MPH
  • Cheri Todoroff
  • Soma Wali, MD

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 Diabetes Management via Pharmacist Telephone Intervention @ Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey

This program was implemented across a large payor network utilized predictive modeling to tailor insulin therapy adherence interventions in order to improve diabetes management.  Three…

Innovators

  • Julie C. Lauffenburger, PharmD, PhD
  • Jennifer Lewey, MD, MPH
  • Saira Jan, MS, PharmD
  • Sagar Makanji, PharmD
  • Christina A. Ferro, PharmD
  • Alexis A. Krumme, MS, ScD
  • Jessica Lee, BA
  • Roya Ghazinouri, PT, DPT, MS
  • Nancy Haff, MD
  • Niteesh K. Choudhry, MD, PhD

Preventing Medical Student Burnout via The Healer’s Art ® @ Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine

The Healer’s Art Program is a national program offered by the Remen Institute for the Study of Health and Illness (RISHI) that enables medical students…

Innovators

  • Evangeline Andarsio, MD
  • Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
  • Dean Parmelee, MD
  • John Donnelly, MD
  • Bruce Binder, MD

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