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 »
Most patients are escorted to exam rooms (escorted rooming) although patients directing themselves to their exam room (self-rooming) saves patient and staff time while increasing patient satisfaction. In this study by the PATH collaborative, HIP Investigators Dr. Edmond Ramly and Dr. Maureen Smith along with other authors surveyed patients and staff in 25 primary care… Read more »
Many highly capitated systems still pay physicians based on relative value units (RVU), which may lead to excessive office visits. In this study by the PATH collaborative, HIP Investigator Dr. Maureen Smith along with other authors reviewed electronic health records from the family medicine clinic panel members of 97 physicians and 42 residents to determine… Read more »
In US primary care, helping patients with depression is a daily crisis. Approximately 15.7 million adults in the United States (7%) had at least 1 major depressive episode in the past year that caused functional impairment and contributed to lost productivity, costing an estimated $23 billion in 2013. Over the past decade, collaborative care has… Read more »
Those whose lives are most directly impacted by health care-patients, caregivers, and frontline staff-are ideally situated to improve patient health care services and care quality. Research suggests catalyst films, comprised of rigorously-analyzed interview data from diverse patients about their experiences with health and health care are a promising way to bring actionable patient feedback to… 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.
While Collaborative Care is a proven solution to this crisis, implementing it in any medical system exposes unexpected challenges. As an implementation group shapes a Collaborative Care model to fit their local environment, there is no systematic method to determine which parts of the model can be modified or where flexibility might undermine success. Researchers… 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 »
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 »
Burnout among primary care physicians is a major problem in the United States. In addition to negatively impacting physician health, burnout is also associated with reduced quality of patient care and increased physician turnover, further contributing to health care costs and the shortage of physicians. The PATH group conducted a study to determine the association… Read more »
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