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An Evaluation of the Spread and Scale of PatientToc™ from Primary Care to Community Pharmacy Practice for the Collection of Patient-Reported Outcomes
This research will implement in pharmacies a patient-reported outcomes collection tool, PatientToc™, to collect data around medication adherence that can be used by pharmacists to improve adherence.
Use of Push and Pull Health Information Exchange Technologies by Ambulatory Care Practices and the Impact on Potentially Avoidable Health Care Utilization
This project will clarify the relationship between “pull” and “push” health information exchange usage in primary care settings, and determine the impact of each approach on potentially avoidable and costly health care utilization.
Ambulatory Clinic Exam Room Design With Respect to Computing Devices to Enhance Patient Centeredness
This project studied the impact of changing the computing layout in a clinical exam room and evaluated its impact on workflow and patient centeredness.
Designing User-Centered Decision Support Tools for Chronic Pain in Primary Care
This project will develop decision support tools that integrate with electronic health records to increase the quality and effectiveness of chronic pain care.
Improving Anxiety Detection in Pediatrics Using Health Information Technology
This project integrated a validated anxiety-specific screening tool in an existing clinical decision support system and tested it with a randomized feasibility pilot that found the tool did not increase detection of anxiety in pediatric primary care.
Trial of Aggregate Data Extraction for Maintenance of Certification and Raising Quality
This project created and evaluated a process to present quality data via physician’s online certification portal and found that the availability of that data did not result in improvement of quality measures.
Improving Management of Test Results that Return After Hospital Discharge
This project developed, implemented, and evaluated the impact of a computerized tool to automatically identify tests with pending results at hospital discharge, and assist in communicating those to followup providers.
Computer Automated Developmental Surveillance and Screening
The project sought to determine if a computer decision support system integrated with routine care could improve standardized developmental screening during early well-child visits and surveillance for developmental disabilities at all pediatric visits.
Improving Lab Follow-up by Delivering an Enhanced Medication List to Outpatient Physician Practices
The goal of this project was to design, develop, and evaluate a method of providing medication data from the Indiana Network for Patient Care to ambulatory primary care practices in order to enhance health care quality
Implementing and Improving the Integration of Decision Support into Outpatient Clinical Workflow
This project analyzed a clinical decision support tool for colorectal cancer screening that was integrated into an ambulatory clinical workflow.
