From the 2023 HVPA National Conference Brandon Spivey, Postgraduate (University of South Carolina School of Medicine), Matthew O'Brien, Postgraduate (University of South Carolina School of Medicine) Background:AccuVax® is a vaccine management system intended to...
Information Technology Innovations
Using the “Control Chart” Tool as an Unconventional Approach to Identify System Noise Trends and Patterns at JHAH
From the 2023 HVPA National Conference Iyad Eid BSN, MSc HC, CPHRM, CPHQ, CPPS (Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare), Alber Paules MD, MBA, Ali Abandi MIS Background: Control Chart is a well-known performance improvement tool that assists in identifying special cause...
Challenges of administrative data use in quality data reporting at the Johns Hopkins Hospital
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Anirudh Saraswathula MD, MS (Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), April Taylor MS, MHA, Matthew Severson MS, Jenna Swann MS, Patricia Dasch BSN, RN, Cory Williamson...
Increasing Healthcare Connectivity Among Home-Based Palliative Care Patients
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Donna Stevens (Lehigh Valley Health Network), Kathryn Zaffiri MPH, Donna Stevens MHA, Lisa Hageman MSW, Jennifer Allen MD, Jessica Fenton MSW, Patricia Poblete BSN Objectives - Decrease disparities in virtual healthcare access...
Impact of Epic Chat Discharge Priority Groups
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Erwin Wang MD, MHA (NYU Langone), Marwa Moussa MD, Michael Wachs MHA, Amarpreet Bains MD, Ed Iturrate MD, Frank Volpicelli MD Background Length of stay is an important measure of throughput. Discharges for patients that are...
One Term at a Time: Removing a Racist Term from the Electronic Health Record
From the 2022 HVPA National Conference Talene Metjian Pharm.D. (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), Linda Tague (Graduate), Sanjeev Swami MD, Kathleen Chiotos MD, MSCE Background Vancomycin is an antibiotic that is used to treat serious bacterial infections and is...
Making the Electronic Medical Record Helpful: A Clinician-Centered Inpatient Diuresis Dashboard for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
From the 2021 HVPAA National Conference William Yang (University of Maryland Medical Center), Rosanne Rouf (University of Michigan), Venkat Gundareddy, Regina Kauffman, Amy Knight Background Electronic medical records’ (EMRs) user interfaces often present information...
Sexual Orientation Demographic Data in a Clinical Cohort of Transgender Patients
From the 2021 HVPAA National Conference Sam Dubin (NYU Langone Health), Tiffany Cook (NYU School of Medicine), Asa Radix, Richard Greene Background There are specific issues regarding sexual orientation (SO) collection and analysis among transgender and nonbinary...
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