DIHI Announces 2016 RFA Innovation Awards
March 17, 2016
The Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI) has announced that it will fund care delivery innovation projects that will help Duke Health lead in the areas of population health and analytics, novel patient interactions, new and team-based models of care, and to optimize patient flow. This is the third year that the institute has funded projects through a call for innovation applications across Duke University. “We have seen success in the innovation projects that were funded last year and are looking forward to working with the new awardees,” said Dr. William Fulkerson, Executive Vice President for Duke University Health System.
This year DIHI has continued to increase its projects and investments through the RFA process, supporting twelve projects in 2016. Over 60 applications from across the university and health system competed for support. The innovation projects that won this year will receive funding support from DIHI in addition to project management support, access to data, analytics and visualization, and statistical support. Of these, Kevin Sowers, President of the Duke University Hospital, and Tom Owens, MD, Chief Medical Officer for the Duke University Health System, have directly invested in three innovation pilots.
DIHI has also made investments in a technology framework to integrate data from digital technologies into the electronic health record and advancements to support Apple HealthKit and ResearchKit. It has also continued to invest in the Duke Living Lab for Innovation which provides infrastructure for testing new models of care as well as a core set of capabilities to drive successful implementation of innovation.
Projects funded this year and the principal investigators are listed below:
Population Health and Analytics
Building a Virtual Medical Neighborhood for Chronic Kidney Disease in Duke Primary Care (Blake Cameron, MD, and Kevin Shah, MD, MBA)
Implementation of a Duke-specific Early Warning System (Cara O’Brien, MD, Armando Bedoya, MD, Meredith Clement, MD)
Implementation of a novel PSA screening algorithm (Tom Polascik, MD, Raj Gupta, MD, John Anderson, MD, and Kevin Shah, MD, MBA)
Comprehensive Cardiac Device Safety System (Emily Zeitler, MD, Jason Koontz, MD, Ruth Ann Greenfield, MD, and Kathy Brink RN, BSN)
Novel Patient Interactions
The GI Virtual Concierge: A Mobile Platform for Family Engagement (Ziad Gellad, MD, MPH and Kelly Osborne, GCRN, BSN)
Project CALM: Personalized Music for Delirium Prevention (Heidi White, MD, MHS, Med, Neema Sharda, MD, Shelley McDonald, DO, PhD, Loretta Matters, MSN, RN, and Judy Prewitt)
Mobile Complex Care Plans for Children with Medical Complexity (David Ming, MD, Heather McLean, MD, Lisa Parnell, MD, MPH, Stephanie Smith, RN, BSN, MSN, and Valerie Jarrett, BS)
Using Endocrine Dashboard and Duke PillBox to improve medication adherence to tackle uncontrolled hypertension & glucose control in patients with diabetes (Susan E. Spratt MD and Bradi B Granger, MSN PHD)
New and Team-Based Models of Care
A Three-Pronged Approach to Reducing HIV Transmission through Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) (Meredith Clement, MD, Mehri McKeller, MD, N. Lance Okeke, MD, Kara McGee, and Jessica Seidelman, MD)
Piloting a New Intensive Primary Care (IPC) Model (Lynn Bowlby, MD, Alex Cho, MD, MBA, Heather Hoecker, PA, and Marigny Manson, RN, BSN )
Cancer Distress Coach RCT (Sophia Smith, PhD, Jon O’Donnell, MD, Bridget Koontz, MD, Nicole Nelson, MPH , Kiera Malloy, Jianhong Chang, PhD, Julia Hoffman, PhD, and Eric Kuhn, PhD)
Optimizing Patient Flow
Use of Tele-Medicine in the Emergency Department: A novel approach to help temporarily address unanticipated ED Surge (Jessica Melton)
About Duke Institute for Health Innovation
The Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI), catalyzes innovation in health and healthcare at Duke University and Duke Health through its collaboration platform for sourcing and curating real-world health care problems and incubating innovative solutions to create real impact for patients and healthcare systems. DIHI focuses on driving a culture and ecosystem for innovation through implementation and health delivery science, health technology innovation, workforce and leadership development, and applied health policy. For more information, please visitwww.dihi.org
To learn more about DIHI, please contact
Suresh Balu
Program Director, Duke Institute for Health Innovation
310 Blackwell Street, Durham, NC 27701
suresh.balu@duke.edu
