2023 Research Stories
Advancing Public Health with Interoperable Data Exchange
Facilitating data exchange between public health and clinical care information systems leads to efficiencies in vaccination data access and staff effort, resulting in cost savings, improved data informed decision making, and better surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Displaying Patient Photos in Medical Records Reduces Errors, Improves Patient Safety
Patient photos displayed in the electronic health record significantly reduce wrong-patient order errors and improve patient safety.
Improving Access to Care with Telehealth Physiatry Visits for Children with Special Healthcare Needs
Hybrid models of care can expand access to pediatric physiatry care for children with cerebral palsy and other special healthcare needs in rural communities and areas where specialty providers are scarce.
Machine Learning to Improve Patient Triage in the Emergency Department
The use of an emergency department triage tool informed by machine learning has the potential to improve predictions around patient health severity, leading to safer, higher quality, and more equitable care.
Scaling and Dissemination of an Effective Clinical Decision Support Tool for Pneumonia
Development of an interoperable version of an effective pneumonia clinical decision support tool has potential to help healthcare systems overcome barriers to sharing impactful and evidence-based decision support tools.
Previous Research Stories
Automated Retract-and-Reorder Measures to Improve Medication Safety
New measures to identify near-miss medication errors are a major advancement in patient safety and can help healthcare systems make ordering even safer.
Decision Precision+: Increasing Lung Cancer Screening for At-Risk Patients
A shared decision-making tool to support the appropriate use of low-dose computed tomography screening has the potential to prevent 10,000 or more lung cancer deaths annually in the United States.
Guidelines For Meaningful and Effective Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes Use in Clinical Settings
Governance, integration, and reporting are key systems-level principles that support incorporation of electronic patient-reported outcomes into clinical practice.
Making Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support Implementable in Different Electronic Health Records
Clinical decision support that can be implemented in different types of electronic health records has the potential to scale evidence-based practice across healthcare systems.
Spreading and Scaling Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes for People with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Development of a toolkit to facilitate the scale and spread of using patient-reported outcomes among rheumatoid arthritis patients fills an existing gap in national resources to provide support to rheumatologists.
Virtual Pharmacy Improves Medication Use and Patient Safety in Palliative Care
Including virtual pharmacists in palliative care teams can reduce adverse drug interactions and increase the quality of life for people who are very ill.