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Improving Workload by “Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff”
In the spirit of well-being, we are following up on some of our Burnout in Primary Care Focus Group findings by both capturing the clinician…
Innovators
- Karen Sherritt, MD
Managing Critical Radiology Results via an Automatic Notification Tool
Brigham and Women’s Hospital developed an automated alert notification system for communicating critical imaging results with the aim of increasing adherence to institutional policy and…
Innovators
- Christopher Roy
- Anuj Dalal, MD
Reducing Medical Errors via a Web-Based Handoff Tool
Brigham and Women’s Hospital implemented a web-based handoff tool and training for health care personnel with the aim of reducing medical errors in medical and…
Innovators
- Stephanie K. Mueller, MD, MPH
Improving Specialty Care via an Electronic Referral System
An academic medical center designed an electronic specialty referral system integrated into the EHR to improve physician satisfaction with the referral process, ensure that patients…
Innovators
- Michael L. Barnett, MD
Improving Diabetes Care via Medical Assistants and Community Health Workers @ Northern California Community Health Centers
A group of community health centers implemented team-based models of care that integrated a new medical assistant and/or community health worker-leds to aid in diabetes…
Innovators
- Mark W. Friedberg, MD
Reducing Medication Errors via Prescription Error Screening Software
By retrospectively analyzing software-generated outlier prescription alerts from a dataset of Partners HealthCare EHR records, the program in this study utilized machine learning to systematically…
Innovators
- Gordon D Schiff, MD
Reducing Inpatient Costs via Hospital-Level Home Care
A home hospitalization program was developed to provide care for acute illness in patients’ homes in order to improve cost-effectiveness, quality, and safety compared to…
Innovators
- David M. Levine, MD MPH MA
- Adam Licurse, MD MHS
- Bonnie Blanchfield, ScD
Reducing Emergency Department Utilization via Community Health Workers
The emergency department (ED) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital implemented a community health worker (CHW)-based program to improve care coordination for frequent ED users and…
Innovators
- Bonnie B. Blanchfield, ScD, CPA
- Christin Price, MD
- Vineeta Vaidya, MS
Improving Patient-Provider Communication via EHR-Based Health Risk Appraisal
By combining Electronic Health Records (EHRs) with Health Risk Assessments (HRAs), physicians across Brigham and Women’s Primary Care Practice networks hope to increase patient awareness…
Innovators
- Jennifer S. Haas, MD, MSc
Preventing Falls via Electronic Toolkit @ Urban AMC Brigham & Women’s Hospital
This project compared patient engagement with the three-step fall prevention process across the three Fall TIPS (Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety) modalities (an electronic health…
Innovators
- Megan Duckworth, BA
- Patricia C Dykes, RN, PhD, MA