Background Nationally and within Wisconsin, disparities in healthcare exist across multiple determinants of health including race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, health insurance coverage, and geography (rural and urban). Public reporting on disparities in the quality of care is an important step to achieving accountability for reducing disparities over time and has been associated with improvements… Read more »
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Background Machine learning-based clinical decision support (ML-CDS) tools hold enormous promise to simultaneously improve clinical care and reduce clinician burden. ML-CDSs can distill the abundance of data in modern electronic health records (EHRs) into an actionable recommendation to providers to inform medical decision making, and they can do so without the provider needing to perform… Read more »
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A Call to Action Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, two leading causes of premature death in Americans (CDC – High Blood Pressure). In fact, heart disease is the leading cause of death in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Department of Health Services – Heart Disease). One in about… Read more »
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Background In response to the opioid crisis, Wisconsin health systems serving rural communities are developing opioid stewardship programs to facilitate appropriate opioid prescribing, opioid disposal, diversion prevention, management of the effects of the use of opioids, treatment of opioid use disorder and reducing opioid overdoses. Health system pharmacists often lead these efforts and have many… Read more »
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Background Self-rooming is a relatively new process where patients direct themselves to an assigned exam room immediately after checking in, bypassing the traditional waiting room experience where a staff member would escort them from the waiting room to the exam room. Self-rooming decreases waiting time for patients and decreases staff time and cost while increasing… Read more »
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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has put new constraints on the care of patients. Concerns about viral transmission, limiting exposure, proper PPE utilization, and evolving best practices in caring for patients with a novel viral disease has led to healthcare workers feeling high levels of uncertainty and has left healthcare systems scrambling to prepare their staff… Read more »
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HIPxChange welcomes submissions of tools and materials for health system change to be posted on HIPxChange. If you have conducted an intervention and have materials that would potentially be useful for other healthcare systems that you are interested in sharing, we encourage you to get in touch with the Health Innovation Program (HIPxChange@hip.wisc.edu) about creating… Read more »
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The goal of HIPxChange is to accelerate the translation of new and existing knowledge into clinical and community practice to improve healthcare delivery and health outcomes. HIPxChange is sponsored by the following programs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to provide tools and materials for evidence-based health system and population health improvement. We welcome all questions, comments, and suggestions… Read more »
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Background Most research universities have technology transfer infrastructure in place to help researchers apply for patents and spread the use of inventions such as drugs and devices. Yet most research universities lack similar infrastructure to help investigators scale up the use of non-patentable innovations such as novel healthcare models, behavioral or other heath interventions, and… Read more »