Innovations
in HealthCare: New Office to Focus on Clinical Practice
The George Washington
University School of Medicine and Health Sciences initiative aims to
improve medical care through clinical intervention
A new office
housed in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences will serve as a
hub for developing and evaluating clinical interventions. The overall goal for
the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation is to provide increased knowledge
and understanding of structure, processes and effects of health services for
individuals and populations.
“Through
this new initiative, we hope to unite entities across campus and beyond to spur
clinical practice innovation,” said Jesse Pines, director of the Office of
Clinical Practice Innovation. “Our goal is that outcomes from our research will
not only serve and improve processes within our own clinical entities at GW,
but will become benchmarks for medical institutions across the country.”
For example,
Dr. Pines and his team are working on proposals that will determine how to
better engage patients in quality and safety improvement and are studying new
innovations, like clinical decision units, and how they have impacted acute
care delivery.
The main
objectives of the Office of Clinical Practice Innovation are to:
- Develop, implement and
evaluate clinical initiatives, new practice models and research to
improve the quality and value of health care.
- Spur clinical practice
innovation among physicians through collaboration with organizations,
including Children’s National Medical Center, Kaiser
Permanente Mid-Atlantic, the University of North Carolina,
the National Association for Health Care Quality and
others, in order to conduct research and introduce novel health care
interventions.
- Work within the
university to develop new initiatives that enhance GW funding
and collaborations.
“This new
initiative represents a bold commitment to finding ways to improve the health
care system that we know today,” said Jeffrey S. Akman, vice president for
health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. “By
leveraging our existing partnerships and embarking on collaborations with
other, like-minded research institutions, we believe that we will make a
positive difference for patients and health care providers.”
The new
office will employ assets within GW, including EMR systems used by its clinical
partners, and develop a data infrastructure to facilitate the study of local
clinical delivery initiatives at GW, as well as work with local partners. The
GW Office of Technology Transfer will work to facilitate the development of new
clinical innovations. The Office of Clinical Practice Innovation will also
develop a fellowship program for physicians and other providers.
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