Implementing Universal Medication Schedule Directions For Use When E-Prescribing: A Toolkit for Health Systems

Background In 2008 the Institute of Medicine (now known as the National Academy of Medicine) recognized prescription medication labels as a vital tool to prevent adverse drug events, yet approximately half of patients across all literacy levels misunderstand dosage instructions (Institute of Medicine, 2008). The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy found that just 52%… Read more »

Guide for Collecting and Submitting Disparity Indicators

Background Nationally and within Wisconsin, disparities in healthcare exist across multiple determinants of health including race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, health insurance coverage, and geography (rural and urban). Public reporting on disparities in the quality of care is an important step to achieving accountability for reducing disparities over time and has been associated with improvements… Read more »

Dashboarding for Machine Learning-based Clinical Decision Support Implementation and Monitoring Toolkit

Background Machine learning-based clinical decision support (ML-CDS) tools hold enormous promise to simultaneously improve clinical care and reduce clinician burden. ML-CDSs can distill the abundance of data in modern electronic health records (EHRs) into an actionable recommendation to providers to inform medical decision making, and they can do so without the provider needing to perform… Read more »

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Staff at UW Health and the University of Wisconsin Health Innovation Program have developed an algorithm that can be used to improve the equity of the distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations to healthcare personnel during Phase 1a of the CDC’s vaccine distribution plan, if not enough vaccine is available to immunize an entire group of employees with similar job-related risk exposure. The COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization Tool ranks health care personnel with similar job-related risk exposure by risk of mortality to COVID-19 according to SVI and age.

CBS 58 Milwaukee interviewed Dr. Grace Flood about the tool and featured her interview in a recent segment on the channel.

 
 

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