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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 Smoking Cessation via Decision Aid

This program at an urban safety net primary care clinic utilized motivational interviewing and a visual, easy-to-understand decision-making aid to promote smoking cessation.

Innovators

  • Sumit D. Agarwal, MD
  • Matthew Kerwin, MD
  • Jacob Meindertsma, MD
  • Andrew Wolf, MD

Improving Lung Cancer Screening via Care Pathways @ Valley Medical Center

This program at an urban community hospital utilized a new lung cancer screening pathway to improve personalized preventive care. 

Innovators

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

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

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

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

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