The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education mandates that programs provide residents with at least semi-annual evaluations of their progress and performance in residency. To create these assessments, residency programs convene Clinical Competency Committees: a group of dedicated faculty who synthesize resident data to assess individual resident strengths and weaknesses that are discussed in the… Read more »
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)—an independent nonprofit that funds comparative clinical effectiveness research—has tapped UW Health and 41 other major health systems nationwide to participate in its new multi-year, $50 million Health Systems Implementation Initiative (HSII). UW Health will be working with the Health Innovation program and the Primary Care Academics Transforming Healthcare (PATH)… Read more »
Machine learning-based clinical decision support (ML-CDS) tools hold enormous promise to simultaneously improve clinical care and reduce clinician burden. ML-CDSs can streamline the process of identifying the right care for the right patient and presenting that information to providers at the right time. However, many challenges with ML-CDS still exist, and these tools require monitoring… Read more »
The UW ICTR Neighborhood Health Partnerships Program (NHP) is excited to announce the launch of their latest ZIP code level report, the Sociodemographic Profile Report. To make sociodemographic information easily accessible and comparable across geographies, NHP has launched a new report that provides information on the social determinants of health at the ZIP code level. This report uses… Read more »
Dr. Smith’s research program examines the effectiveness of our health care system for aging and chronically ill persons. Her leadership positions include the Director of the UW Health Innovation Program and Director of the Community Academic Partnerships core of the NIH-CTSA funded Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.
Andrew Quanbeck, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and an honorary associate of the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering. Dr. Quanbeck also serves as a faculty member at the UW’s Clinical and Translational Science Award program. In this capacity, he… Read more »
Dr. Patterson’s research aims to use informatics approaches, including machine learning for risk stratification and computerized decision support, to improve older adults’ transitions to outpatient care following ED visits. His current research, funded by an AHRQ R18, aims to use these methodologies to identify older adults at high risk of falls and improve their care… Read more »
As a NIH/NEI-funded clinician-scientist, Dr. Yao Liu leverages new technology to enhance our understanding and management of glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and other vision-threatening eye diseases through imaging, telemedicine, implementation science, and clinical trials. Dr. Liu is the Director of the UW Teleophthalmology Program, which aims to prevent blindness by expanding access to innovative eye care… Read more »
Elderly patients, or older adults, who are aged 65 years and older, compose of up to 20% emergency department (ED) encounters, and they experience more patient safety incidents and negative outcomes, such as higher admission rate, increased mortality, longer hospital stay, and more ED revisits. Particularly, 18% of their ED visits are fall related, exhibiting… Read more »
Patient and family engagement has been identified as key to fulfilling Learning Healthcare Systems (LHS) promise as a model for improving clinical care, catalyzing research, and controlling costs. Little is known, however, about the state of patient engagement in the learning mission of these systems or about what governance structures and processes facilitate such engagement.… Read more »
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