PHILADELPHIA — Eight teams of health care professionals with promising ideas to improve patient care will take a shot at proving the success of their program in the hopes of earning additional funding to keep their plans in motion during a pitch event. Last year, the eight teams received “seed money” to kick start new projects aimed at improving health care delivery and patient outcomes. As part of the Innovation Accelerator Program, which provides financial support to thought leaders across Penn Medicine in their efforts to develop, test, and implement new approaches to health care, tomorrow’s Innovation Accelerator Pitch Day affords teams the opportunity to discuss their project’s progress with leaders from the Center for Health Care Innovation, and discuss plans for programmatic growth and success.
Since grants were awarded in October, teams have been working with mentors from the Center for Health Care Innovation to apply test and develop their concepts. The eight projects represent a range of new care models, practices and services with the potential to make a dramatic impact on value, outcomes and patients’ experience. Projects that will be presented include:
- Automated lab monitoring for patients on high risk medications
- Our Directives, increasing completion of and compliance with advance directives
- Implementing a teleretinal imaging program to increase screening of diabetic patients
- Increasing compliance with perioperative instructions to decrease complications and improve outcomes
- Reimagining preoperative evaluation processes to reduce cancellations and improve outcomes
- Redesigning follow-up scheduling to reduce cancellations and improve patient experience
- PEACE - optimizing care models for women with signs of miscarriage
- Managing superutilizers
Click here for more information on each of the projects that will be presented.
WHERE: |
Jordan Medical Education Center in the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
3400 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA |
WHEN: |
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
WHO: |
- Ralph W. Muller, chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and dean of the Perelman School of Medicine
- David A. Asch, MD, MBA, executive director, Center for Health Care Innovation, University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Roy Rosin, MBA, chief innovation officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Leaders from presenting teams will be available for interviews at a reception following the pitch session
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