The growth in the use of predictive models in health care continues as health systems adopt electronic health records and gain access to real-time digitized clinical data. Although health systems often have substantial experience in quality improvement related to care interventions, they have limited experience in implementing predictive models as part of the care process.… Read more »
The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) is a voluntary, non-profit consortium of healthcare provider organizations committed to public reporting in an effort to bring meaning to performance measurement information that improves the quality and affordability of healthcare in Wisconsin, in turn improving the health of individuals and communities. Physician groups, hospitals, and health plans… Read more »
UW Health is the nationally recognized, integrated health system of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, with approximately 1,500 physicians serving more than 600,000 patients each year in the upper Midwest and beyond. Its faculty and researchers engage in research, education, and clinical care at UW Health’s clinic locations, University Hospital, UW Health at the… Read more »
The US Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General report on nursing homes found that skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) exhibit wide differences in overall hospital readmission rates. Because evidence has been found that hospital readmission rates can be lowered by discharging to specific SNFs, policy makers have started using hospital readmission rates by… Read more »
With the onset of COVID-19, primary care systems across the country are rapidly changing clinical operations to limit in-person ambulatory visits for infection-control reasons. The Primary care Academics Transforming Healthcare (PATH) collaborative quickly redesigned primary care in their institution to introduce telemedicine visits as a practical alternative to provide needed care remotely. The innovation was… Read more »
For researchers to contribute meaningfully to the creation of learning health systems, practical tools are required to operationalize existing conceptual frameworks. A team of authors including HIP Investigators, Dr. Maureen Smith and Dr. Menggang Yu describe a model currently in use by the University of Wisconsin Health Innovation Program (HIP). The HIP model consolidates and… Read more »
Children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) have, or are at an increased risk for, chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions and also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally. HIP Investigator, Dr. Ryan Coller et al. synthesized the opinions of a national… Read more »
Diabetic eye disease is the leading cause of blindness among working-age U.S. adults. Early detection and treatment can reduce the risk of blindness by over 90%, but fewer than half of adults with diabetes obtain yearly recommended eye screening. Teleophthalmology makes it easier for patients to obtain diabetic eye screening by providing convenient access to… Read more »
The HIP Model and Tools for Research with Learning Health Systems is now available on HIPxChange. This model and tools defines specific steps for projects to create sustainable change based on research conducted within the health system. The HIP Model builds a bridge between science and clinical care to ensure that high-priority questions are identified… Read more »
Case management programs for high-need high-cost patients are spreading rapidly among health systems. PCORNet has substantial potential to support learning health systems in rapidly evaluating these programs, but access to complete patient data on health care utilization is limited as PCORNet is based on electronic health records not health insurance claims data. Because matching cases… Read more »
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